On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Jim Adcock
<jimad@msn.com> wrote:
>Another view is that we have a mess that defies improving texts;
An interesting view but one which cannot be defended: For the great majority
of book files PG provides today, I, or anyone who cares, can greatly improve
the texts on EPUB and MOBI devices for a few minutes work, taking those
files from "virtually unreadable" to "about as good an EPUB or MOBI file one
can find anywhere." And one can do this without looking at page images,
simply because the great majority of PG files currently contains the same
half-dozen "formattos" over and over again. Why obsess over a half-dozen
scannos when the typical PG file contains literally about a 1000
easily-fixed "formattos" which keep the books from being read ?