I don't know how Marcello Perathoner has managed to avoid cellphones that can read Project Gutenberg .txt files for all these years. After all, he live in an area that is well ahead of where I live, at least in terms of cellphones, and I think many other things. _I_ have several five year old cellphones here that have no troubles reading .txt files. I do it all the time at my demonstrations. If I can do this with such outdated technology from US cellphones it should be much easier from more modern technologies, and in advanced areas well beyond the retarded cellphones we have here in the US. When I was living in Europe 10 years ago I saw cellphones waay ahead of anything I ever saw here until years later. [Remember "The Saint" movie with Val Kilmer made in 1996? It had an awesome Nokia 9000 "Communicator" way beyond what we had until quite literally just a few years ago with the LG eNvy, LG Voyager, then on into the iPhone and all its clones, and of course, Blackberrys. On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
Michael S. Hart wrote:
Sorry, CONTENT is what Project Gutenberg provides but not FORMAT, FORM, FORMALITY, etc.
Yes, there still is The Digital Divide, but for those willing and and able to use their cellphones, many of the functions of eBooks are available to the vast majority of the world with cellphones-- about 4.5 billion by the end of 2009.
How are people to use PG content on their cellphones if the main format PG offers is unusable on those devices and impossible to convert?
Can't you see that your bigotry re. new formats contradicts your push for PG on mobile devices?
Let's face it, but when even the plainest of plain text eBooks is created, 99% of the work of re-creating it into another format is already done, all YOU have to do is change 1% and you can have it any other way you want it.
People might not know how to do that 1% and just give up on PG.
On top of this, there are many format conversion programs out there that will do most of this for you.
There is none that can take your anachronistic pet format and transform it into anything readable by computers.
I must admit, but sometimes it appears that everyone in the world seems to know how to run Project Gutenberg better than I.
Tell me one important decision that you made, championed or suggested in the last twelve month re. PG.