On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:32:32PM -0500, Gutenberg9443@aol.com wrote:
I just got an extremely distressed snailmail letter from a retired professor of Oriental and Buddhist studies, who is blind and lives in Thailand.
I quote him:
"Now as far as I can tell there are no more e-books available in "txt" format but only in "HTM" format.
<snip> This seems very odd to me. I just ran a check, and I can find exactly 59 etext numbers for which there is HTML but no equivalent text file. Most of these are collections of images. A few are cases where the HTML was posted as a different number from the existing .txt. We don't do that any more, but there are some old cases. One was a bad upload, which I'm hunting around for a fix for now. Seriously, are you sure he's actually looking at _our_ site, as opposed to some other site like Blackmask?
I know what he's talking about because I downloaded a copy of Kipling's story "The Brushwood Boy" a couple of weeks ago in .htm form
And this is why I'm asking. The only copy of this title I can find in PG is in "The Day's Work" collection, in file dyswk10.txt, which is plain text. I don't see how you could have downloaded this from PG in HTML format. jim