I use to do research for a person who wrote military history. You might consider the format I used to put several hundred de-classifed research pages I got from President (LBJ) Johnson's library in Austin Texas. The site has about 280 - 300 pages and uses every bit of 25meg of internet space. Page quality was reduced so that each page was about 80,000 to 135,000 bytes per page. http://members.easyspace.com/airdrop/index.html I have copied some of the pages of the Louisa book under discussion here. I would expect you should probably expect 80,000 to 100,000 bytes per each page you scan. I hope you find this helpful in figuring how much internet space you need to plan for. Of course the smaller you make the image file the faster it loads. You can save allot of space by converting the image file to a TEXT file if you have a program which will do this cleanly. Often this doesn't work well because of the type set the book was pinted in. My 5th G Grandparents Daivid and Judith ____? Anderson are in the book. Unfortunally the information for them is not correct. Ray Anderson ----- Original Message ----- From: Pat <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [VALOUISA-L] Re: Putting the book online! > Once it is scanned, it could be broken into sections for proof reading > and editing couldn't it? A lot of us could work on it and then > reassemble it? > > Pat Snyder > > ______________________________