Taylor, I hope that this message reaches you. Prodigy has just started offering on-line Internet messaging (in contrast to its previous system of launching such messages off-line, then going on-line to transmit them). Anyway, a couple of quick notes: First, a reassurance for what it's worth, that my review of the audiotape books is still coming. My problem has been total physical exhaustion since I started commuting to my new job in September. Every day I vow to come home and get this review (and other work) done, but every night it's the same thing: a slow fade until I reach my fail-safe point and go to bed. Weekends always look promising, but after catching up on my rest and family obligations, I suddenly find that it's Sunday night and I'm right back where I started. The dumb thing is that the review has been essentially written for months; all that remains is reorganizing and polishing it (which I have been working on). I should warn you, BTW, that it's long ... very long. However, I believe that you once said that an advantage of on-line reviews is that length needn't be limited. I should also reassure you, however, that I range rather widely on the subject of audiotaped books (while not neglecting the designated titles at all). I think that readers will find what I have to say to be of great interest. I'm not trying to make the thing humorous, but I think it will be regarded as a _fun_ review. If I don't deliver it to you by Sunday night, feel free to nag at me severely. Oh, a little technical point while I think of it: I don't have ISBNs for any of these tapes. The information doesn't appear on the tapes, their packages (I have the rental boxes for the Books on Tape cassettes), or their catalogs. Next subject: MTAZ, which I gather you have by now. I don't know what Kevin told you about that manuscript, so I'll fill in a few details. First, it belatedly occurred to me that if I am to get that ms. into the hands of SLC specialists while I still have a chance to make corrections, I had better do it double-quick. Last week I sent Kevin my only set of double-column pages and had him duplicate them on back-to-back pages (I still haven't seen such a set myself, BTW). I asked him to send copies to a number of people including you. First, let me say that I expect nothing in return from you, though I naturally will welcome any comments or corrections that you care to pass on. I figured that you would enjoy seeing the ms. and might find it useful (the book is now scheduled to appear next August). I appreciate your work in running the forum, so I'm happy to be able to do something for you. The master copy of the ms. is at Facts On File, where it is being copyedited. I expect to receive the entire edited ms. at the end of the month, and I'll have until Christmas to get it back to FOF with my response to the editing. December will thus be my last opportunity to make changes in the ms. At this point all I can really do is delete unhappy passages and make minor textual corrections. It's absolutely too late to add new entries or make major revisions (of course, I'm painfully aware of the book's significant omissions). Even so, I have no doubt that there are many errors waiting to be found (in fact, I'm aware of a bunch of them that I acciden- tally overlooked in my rush to get the ms. off in August). I expect that the publisher's copyeditor will find most of the typos & minor stylistic problems. OBTW, if it isn't clear in the ms. package, the book will have nearly 150 illustrations & a map of the USA. I hope that you enjoy reading the thing. More later, Kent