Lee,
I am in favor of continuing to have text editions of every title. I've done some Activities for the One Laptop Per Child project. Their first e-book Activity could only do PDFs. I made a second Activity in Python that could read plain text files and I've read a LOT of PG books with it. Now OLPC has a reader that can do PDF, DjVu, EPUB, CBZ, and plain text.
I later wrote a book on how to write Activities for the Sugar platform and my sample code was based on my plain text e-book reader.
HTML, EPUB, and MOBI are all great formats but making HTML that converts nicely to EPUB and MOBI for use on a Nook or Kindle is not trivial. Formatting poetry and family tree tables is problematic, for one thing.
Whatever comes along in the future, we'll always have plain text. I'm cool with that.
James Simmons
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Lee Passey
<lee@novomail.net> wrote:
On Thu, December 29, 2011 3:22 am, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
> (In the spirit of Amazon press releases:) More Kindle files downloaded
> from PG on xmas day than any other file type:
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/pretty-pictures
Based upon these graphs, 81.65% of the interest in Project Gutenberg is in
HTML files, or one of their encapsulated equivalents. Only 11.5% of the
downloads are for impoverished text.
Boy, these people are sure going to be pissed when they find out that HTML is
fading into irrelevancy, and impoverished text is the future. (What's the
emoticon for "tongue-in-cheek"?)
Talk about the tail wagging the dog...
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