I don't know why, but this blank page thing happens to me at time as well. First, I will say that I have ignore blank pages turned on, so when I first scan a book in Kurzweil the blank pages do not appear. So that I can keep the recognition statistics and confidence levels, I leave the book in .kes format until I'm done editing the book, and just about to submit it. Then, just before I submit the book to bookshare, I save it as .rtf. I do no other editing, and simply close the original .kes file which was opened in order to save it as the .rtf file, and when I go to open the .rtf file, it is suddenly a number of pages longer than it was previously. I have gone through the books page by page to manually delete the blank pages, but as soon as I reopen the file again, it usually has extra pages back in it again. What is even more odd, is that it isn't the same number of blank pages, and they don't even appear in the same places. I have no solution or explinations... Tiffany