so, james, i'm finally getting around to
trying to figure out what to do about you
and your book, and whether i can help you.

so i did a compare between a file of the book
from december 22nd and just the other day...

and i see some interesting stuff...        :+)

i expected to find you'd done a few more pages,
with everything before them basically the same,
and everything after them still left untouched...

but what i actually found is that you have been
doing some book-wide global-change editing,
including a mass fix of spacey doublequotes,
and some global-change name replacements.
looks like you also did a hunt for em-dashes...

well done, my friend.

i'm sure it was all your idea, and a good idea
it was, sir!  i applaud your accomplishments...

anyway...

i think what i would need to do is to _rewrap_
the file back to its original p-book linebreaks,
and reintroduce indicators for the pagebreaks.

that's what it would take to put it in my system.

i'm willing to _try_ to do those things, to see if
it's relatively _easy_ to do them, and -- if so --
(but there are no guarantees!), then i would be
able to build a system for you.  will you use it?
if not, i won't bother.  but if so, i'll give it a try.

-bowerbird