Hi Caitlyn, First, are there the proper number of pages in the book? Does your total page count equal the number of numbered pages of text plus preliminary pages? Is that number close to what amazon, Barnes and Noble, or some other book site lists as the proper number of pages for the book with the ISBN that you're validating? If the page count is correct given all of those checks, then you can just either leave the pages blank, or add notations to the unmarked blank pages, if you want to. That isn't required. If the number of pages is off, can you contact the submitter to find out if he/she did mark absolutely all blank pages? If he/she did mark all of the blank pages and your page count is off, I'd delete the unmarked blank pages. Just my opinion. If you are validating using Kurzweil version 11, blank pages are sometimes added to rtf documents. This issue may be fixed by (and I think it is) by making sure that under the settings menu, and conversion, that "split long pages" is disabled. Sorry that wasn't my most elloquent note, but I think I've covered every possible eventuality. Good luck! Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of My Nickels Worth Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 10:47 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Grr-blank pages again! Ok, I know this has come up before, but I apparently just can't wrap my head around what to do. I'm validating a book of erotic short stories. It's got lots of blank pages. Some say nothing, some actually have "this page is blank" in brackets on them, some are numbered, some are just plain blank. What do I leave and what do I take out? Thanks, Caitlyn To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.