Dale... Amy... shighfield... thank you all very much for your replies!
This is all very helpful information. I'm running WinXP at the moment but I will make a note of Amy's caveat should I update to Vista or Win7.
I did have a look through all the stuff here regarding impserve but I think I'm too stupid to understand most of it...
Last night I spend quite awhile trying to get something useful out of Windows e-Book Publisher... and it finally resulted in an .imp file... but with errors... and somehow when I try to edit the file there is no longer any wordwrap and the lines stretch on for miles.
I've downloaded GEBLibrarian and have read its user manual... and I'm hoping it will be a little more forgiving and intuitive than Publisher.
I'll keep on plugging here (FedEx tracking reports my reader should arrive by next Monday) so it gives me some time to get stuff right.
Again, many thanks to all of you... and I'll more than likely be back with more questions before the dust settles...
Helen