Patti Thinking about Kellie's msg in this thread: initially, stick to books without pictures or charts as these can be a nightmare even for experienced book scanners. Edit while you scan; and examine your results as you go along and rescan pages which don't seem to be all that good. The better a book looks upon initial examination, the more likely is going to be accepted. Validators prefer books that require either no work beyond the basic requirements or minimal correcting. If they felt they would have to put in hours to bring the book up to grade, they might conclude that it would be faster to scan than edit. And if that was their conclusion, they might "opt" to reject outright or return the book to the pool for someone to make a judgment. Before I scanned books, I validated for several months which gave me a sense of what could and couldn't be done. One of the many things I discovered is that scanned books, thanks to products like Open Book and K1000 plus today's modern scanners, can be far better than I initially expected. Hence, there are validators out there that have raised what they deem as fair to a higher bar. And as more and more books get submitted and those become of higher and higher quality, it is only natural that validator inclination will be to demand more and more.