Steve,

I'm interested in checking out your Rg Veda. I myself am responsible for this:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39442

It was quite a job to format, mostly because of family tree tables. I was not at all happy with the formatting of the EPUB and Kindle versions, so I reworked the EPUB, generated a Kindle from it, and published it on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Bhagavata-Purana-Corrected-Introduction-ebook/dp/B0086Q7UTE/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1347892023&sr=8-1

If you look on Amazon you'll see that others have taken my inadequately formatted version, put a quick and dirty cover on it, and are selling it for more than I am asking.

Another thing I've done with reformatted PG submissions (my own submissions) is put them on the Internet Archive:

http://archive.org/details/VidyapatiBangiyaPadabali

http://archive.org/details/ChaitanyasLifeAndTeachings

For my Bhagavata Purana I created an RST file which the other formats got generated from. For most non-illustrated books this would be an excellent solution. For illustrated books you have the problem that PG wants all illustrations to be viewable vertically on the web page, and if the printed book requires you to rotate the book to see the illustration the right way up you need to rotate the image so the web page viewer can see it the right way up. Good for web pages, not good for e-readers which should have the same orientation the original book had.

Doing poetry on a e-reader has its own challenges.

There has been a lot of discussion on this list of how to deal with this. My own suggestion would be to give the submitter the option to include a properly formatted EPUB with his submission. PG would use this EPUB instead of the auto generated one and would generate the Kindle version from the EPUB as well.

James Simmons

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Steve White <stevan.white@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi!

It does seem that eveybody has their complaints!

It's impressive: one person voices concerns, and proposes solutions,
and we get to hear everybody's concerns, and how those are far more
important. And then... well...

Each of these problems may ultimately be a valid problem that needs to
be addressed, but each of them is do-able, technically. In each case,
it's a matter of looking at the thing a different way.

Technically, no one problem is particularly difficult here.
Technically.

Oh well.

Hey! Here's something completely different!
I just made an e-book with an imbedded Devanagari font that shows some
hymns from the Rig Veda in Sanskrit!

Ah well. It looks very very cool.

C ya!