excellent! thanks guys. Yes codemonkey VISTA is trying to be too clever as usual & yes I have moved on to 7 on my personal PC JSWolf, LOL
I've dragged the .epub folder into the library but it's not showing at all. I even tried renaming it back to .zip too without success. I've had most success with PDF files as they seem to go straight on without issue but apparently .epub is the way to go?