Reggie, I usually go through the following checklist when working on a book: . Page Integrity Check -- remove duplicates, add missing ones. Chapter header chec -- ensure chapter headers are OK. Page header strip -- leave only page number. . Remove spurious tab chars and associated junk. Remove junk chars. Check for odd combinations of digit 1, like 111 instead of "I'll" Remove/fix single alphabetic words. Spell check. please let me know if you need more detail. Guido D. Corona IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. IBM Research, Phone: (512) 838-9735 Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at: http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html "Reggie & Lonnie" <regandlon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/15/2004 04:48 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Re: Need some pointers! I need some pointers about validating, especially from those who are working. I want to make my copies of books as clean as I can, but with limited time, what are the things I should absolutely be doing either on the BrailleNote or the computer and which is faster? As I said before, I had the books but I was reading them and it was taking me a long time. any help on what is absolutely necessary would be appreciated. Thanks a milliion! Reggie and Lonnie