...the fundamental cornerstone of the series as it has developed thus far, namely, that digitizing e-books is _easy_ -- a take-home message for which we can be thankful...
An interesting thesis which anyone can test by "successfully" transcribing a non-trivial book, posting it to PG, and then examining it closely on a variety of devices to see if the posted HTML more-or-less matches the intent found in the epub and mobi when read on a variety of competing reader devices, a variety of competing html browsers on a variety of devices, in the txt70 -- and in the original published text. Hint: A large portion of the posted books at PG fail this test. It is silly to complain about this nit or that nit when the reality is that a large portion of PG books are simply unusable on a large portion of the reader devices that are out there.