For me it also depends upon how bad the copy is. A book I took to validate because I knew it had recipes and I knew that would need sighted help just had too much junk in it. I spent 3 hours cleaning up just the first 50 pages of it and it was a 500 page book. I rescanned the entire book in a second third hours, which is what I should have done with my first three hours. Then I had a nice clean copy that will be easy for someone else to validate. Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading - Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi I'm an eBay affiliate, click here before you bid! Click here for eBay! (what is this? When you click this link, eBay pays me a small percentage of your WINNING bid. There is no additional cost to you.)