Jill, Ipicked up the book this afternoon. It's an old paperback with small print on somewhat yellowed paper, so it's possible that the asterisk is for some words that the validator couldn't decipher. BUT--I haven't read ait yeat, but I hve thunbed it, and I found several places where parts of poems are quoted. I haven't read all my mail, but I have read the "for Braille readers" posts, and the fact that you mentioned that at least one of the symbols seems to be between two sets of quotation marks leads me to believe that they may be caused by the quoted poem parts, especially because in one case the quotation ends with a single quote mark followed by a double quote mark. In the edition I have, the first poem is on page 48, in section four of Chaapter 2. Let me know where the marks show up in your braille copy. If you can give me the chapter and section,m and then maybe a line or two before, I'll be able to find it in my copy. In case by some chance they're the same--and I doubt it because I saw another slightly larger and better copy in the bookstore after I took this one out--my copy is Warner Books edition,copyright 1975 by P. D. James but re-issued by Warner Books in 1987. Cindy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.