Thank you for that, Kellie. Taking you up on your suggestion, I've recently read (just finishing one) two books, both nonfiction, that are very interesting but I just couldn't bring myself to scan. One is called The Speckled Monster. gthis is written by a historian -- I think from Harvard, but is very readable (I checked the reviews before I got it from the library). She tells the story of Lady Mary Wortley Montague of England and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston of Boston (I lived on Boylston St. whenb I was a child and never knew where the name came from) and their fights to get 18th century England and Boston to accept smallpox inoculations or, as their form was known, variolation. My reading this book came about as the result of a bet with my husband who didn't think smallpox inoculating was done until the 19th century, even though I'd read that John Adams' family was inoculated when he was busy in Philadelphia working on the Declaration of Independence. The book is 474 pages, plus bibliography and notes -- and probably an index, though I don't remember. The notes are so interesting I continued to read them after I finished the main part of the book. The book I'm finishing now is Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief, by Bill Mason with Lee Gruenfeld. It's fascinating -- very well-written and tells of his exploits and also is the best desdription I've read of what it's like to be a fugitive, and in jail, and what police do when they want to arrest someone or search someone's house and don't really have the probable cause they need. Of course, we see a lot of that in tv shows, but it sounds worse when it happens to someone you've come to like. But this book, though very interesting and readable, is 365 fairly large pages of fairly small print, and again, I couldn't bring myself to tackle it. I do need to read something when I'm not validating, so I pick books that I know I won't scan. Some that I plan to scan, I put off reading, like Skye O'Malley -- unless someone else scans it and I can read it for fun. I do think both books would be good additions to the collection and I think anyone who validates them will enjoy them. Thanks for making me feel less guilty, Kellie and Lisa. Cindy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com