Sebastien Blondeel <blondeel@clipper.ens.fr> writes:
3. With ebooks and PG: books are searchable and can be tailor-cut to everybody's needs (more books on a given media, PDA OK, ...)
Often the editor takes an arbitrary decision (turn long-s into s or together with the following s into ß), limit the character set to iso-8859-1, fix spelling issues, apply English formatting rule to LOTE texts, strange formatting that hurts the reader. All this is often useful, but aoften not enough. With technology of today, it is possible to provide the images nearby and in this area PG fails miserably, and worse, quite some books are simply missing or offered twice (complete book, separated into chapters). All this is okay, but it is not nice to deny the usefulness of other collection and to blame them for being "that bad", esp. if these collections are free. BTW, loading HTML monster files also takes time (it often takes more time than loading a well done PDF file) and reading the ASCII file often is no fun. Sure, these ASCII files are also useful for special purposes, but telling us again and again that's the best solution for all books and all times, is highly arguable. -- http://www.gnu.franken.de/ke/ | ,__o | _-\_<, | (*)/'(*) Key fingerprint = F138 B28F B7ED E0AC 1AB4 AA7F C90A 35C3 E9D0 5D1C