bowerbird says: your e-book cannot afford to be nothing more than a formless blob. it _must_ be able to "snap to" a form that exactly imitates the p-book. and for it to be able to do that, you must keep linebreaks/pagination. /// Making ebooks "a form that exactly imitates the p-book" is a KILLER!!! While he mentions the various eBooks of Jane Austen, he fails to talk about the wide variety of Jane Austen's p-books, and that paginations run rampant among them, not to mention margination, spelling, etc. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS /ONE/ eBOOK THAT RULES THEM ALL. . . . As any of you who have followed this kind of conversation before know by now, I tried to find just TWO Declaration of Independence copies I could use to say they agreed with each other when I started the first entry in Project Gutenberg. While I do not doubt that somwehere I am likely to be able to FIND two, I did not find such a pair in research of half a dozen copies at the time, nor even two copies that agreed a vast majority of the times there were such issues. IT WAS A COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME!!!!!!! When I think of going through much longer works. . .well, I do not!!! We went through all of this with Paradise Lost very early on, and the result was that we silenced our "pearls before swine" critics of some very highly places Milton scholars, and it was fun doing so, but that was all there was to it, no real change for the average reader. I am not about to let one person, or journal, however scholarly, make the decision for Project Gutenberg as to what editions to use and how exactly to portray them in whatever format, margination, pagination-- or font, or color, or whatever. If so. . .we are nothing more than a Xerox machine. . . . We should, as always, create something "BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL!!!" Even if it means ruffling a few feathers. . . . My own dream is a single file, hardly larger than a plain text file, that contains all the editions VOLUNTEERS decide we should have. If the ivory tower is not willing to do that last percent or three-- to create their own "PERFECT" edition--let them whine like swine.