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For some time I have been wishing that the _Magna Vita Sancti Hugonis_ by Adam of Eynsham might be republished in English translation alone for classroom use. Adam's Life of St. Hugh covers so many aspects of medieval religious culture that one could teach quite a range of things from it. When I contacted Oxford U. Press about this, they asked, as publishers do, how widespread the interest in this might be, how many copies would my colleagues use. Therefore, I would like to ask list members if they could ever imagine themselves using this as an assigned text and if so, about how many copies a year they might use. Replies can be sent directly to me at [log in to unmask] and I will save them, tabulate them, and pass them on in the hope of convincing OUP to give us an inexpensive paperback edition (or perhaps I could interest the Medieval Academy's Reprints for Teaching series in negotiating for rights). I have a similar question about Gerhart Ladner, _The Idea of Reform_ (1959, 1967). Would anyone out there besides me make use of this if it were reprinted in the MART series? I have suggested it in the past but without any "hard numbers." I would be eager to have it in print again. Dennis Martin Loyola University Chicago [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%