Liz, Tracy's right. I've gone to renew a downloaded-for-validation book ont he 7th day and it was already leased (this happened a couple of times). Now, to be safe, I count 6 days from the day I downloaded and including that day, and then I renew. If you forget and find that you can't renew but have to re-download, you can trash the file you've just redownloaded and continue working on the one you're working on and continue renewing until you're ready to upload. There's no time limit, and, if you do a careful job like many here, since I presume you do have a life to live (grin) it can take several weeks, depending on the size of the book and how "clean" it is to start with. Cindy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/