With all these talk about the automated header and stripper of books, I thought I'd check and compare a copy of a book I've edited with so much painstaking care to a copy downloaded from the public download site. My heart just sunk when I saw what is happening. The page breaks are all over the place, spaces between words are missing and other characters are inserted. the following 2 lines are an example of what is happening to words. Curtisea8Octavius Curtis," Octavius The first line was from the one I downloaded. The comma and a quotation mark was replaced with the number eight and the space disappeared. The second line was from the copy of the book I still have. The book in question is the latest I've edited and validated which is Spider-man2. Vic