jim said:
>   PG txt file is NOT AN E-BOOK FILE
>   because it does not meet at least
>   one criterion that is universally accepted
>   as being required of ebook file formats:
>   namely reflow.

jim, jim, jim, jim, jim, jim, jim.

it's bad enough that i call you a bloomin' idiot.

but it's even worse when you come right back
with a reply that _proves_ that's what you are.

one of the most widely-used e-book formats
in the last 20 years has been the .pdf format --
a format which has not, historically, done reflow.

yet you want to rule it out _by_definition_?

please.

i was _fighting_ against .pdf as an e-book format
for many, many years before you even showed up,
but even i cannot deny that it _is_ an e-book format.

_any_ file-format which can express a book _is_
-- or can be considered as -- an e-book format.

you seem to think you define terms of engagement,
that any discussion must be conducted according to
the way that _you_ define words.  that's bullcrap, jim.

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besides, even if we _accepted_ your stupid definition,
it still doesn't compute, jim, because an ascii-file like
the p.g. e-text format _can_ be reflowed, quite easily.

you just take out the mid-paragraph hard line-breaks.

_any_ e-book programmer can write code to do that...

voila!  reflow!

-bowerbird