Melissa, People often scan and validate. However someone who submits a book is not permitted to validate her own book. traditionally that practices has been discouraged because it may introduce errors. Recently books have been kicked back to the validation step because of self-balidation. Hope this helps. Pratik _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Melissa Polk Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 4:08 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Validating I was under the impression that volunteers both scan and validate books. Are there people who only want to scan and don't want to validate? Several people have commented that their book isn't being validated fast enough. Why do you not validate it yourself? Can the same person not scan and validate a book? :) melissa