I posted before about my attempt to scan Désirée. It is copyright 1953 and is a fat hard covered historical fiction book. It is a great book, but it doesn't scan well because the text is way to far in to the binding, so a few letters are often lost. I am going to give up and let my library put it back in storage if I don't receive a validation offer from an ambitious sighted volunteer in the next day or two. I have only scanned the first 25 pages or so, and don't want to continue scanning if the book has to be rejected anyway. I'm pretty good at reconstruction, but my brain would surely explode if I tried it for as long as it would take to finish this book, and I might be unable to determin what is missing in some places. Sarah Van Oosterwijck curious entity at earthlink dot net