On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, James Adcock wrote:
I spent a lot of time and effort working to answer your questions and when I stated simple results of simple experiments you said I was flaming and trashing you.
And I spent a lot of time and effort and a little bit of money in an Apple Store trying out what you suggested and it didn't work.
Yes I can download something from PG, just not ePub nor MOBI.
You are either not reading my reports, or ignoring them. Go back and try again, otherwise I'll just let you talk yourself out, as has been suggested to me already.
Yes Apple provides something on iBooks, just not something with the PG name in it.
As above. You're just not trying what I suggested. You are doing something else, then complaining it didn't work. You are obviously just not willing to put in the effort, neither on your iPad research, nor in holding up your end of the conversation. This has been a VERY BUSY WEEK/MONTH for me, and I have give you in excess of what it appears I should have. My apologies. . .I am sure you, and others, would have been happier had I simply ignored, which I will start to do now, as advised. First of all, please let me apologize for having been so busy, it has been an incredible few weeks coming up to and now after my first university wide acceptance of my work, and a speech I gave about a week ago, from which I still have not caught up a whole way to my normal energetic levels. I'm still catching up on my sleeping, even sleeping through an earlier half of the garage sales. If you did not know, garage sales are pretty much my favorite thing to do along with work. Therefore, my messages may have been entirely too brief, or to the point, or not full of the materials I am world renowned to borrow at length from "The Tact and Diplomacy Department." If you look up the motto of the department, it is so obvious. Meanwhile, I am now trying to make contact with all those whom I promised I would about a week ago, none of whom have done it in my direction, so I really have no idea if YOU were serious, when it came to continuing our discussion. Normally I presume if someone has not contacted me in a week-- they are not interested at all--and waiting additional weeks-- rarely proves otherwise. However. . .MY INTEREST has not waned. . . . So, if you are willing to pursue our conversation further just let me know, and if not, no reply is required. After all, it IS "The Year of the eBook," and I expect busy to busier to busiest, when it comes to all the years of my life. If you would like to keep up with my thoughts and events I can put you on a list I send to at odd times with even odder junk. Again, if not, no reply is required, no offense taken. It was very nice talking with you, Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg, Inventor of eBooks
Yes Apple provides something on iPad but just no way to use wifi to do content dev in ePUB or MOBI aka SR for DP or solos.
Yes you can overcome these limitations if you use USB instead of wifi but I thought the whole point of iPad at least from my point of view is that it HAS wifi. Well, so does a nook and a nook doesn't allow you to use it either.
Etc.
I think I was pretty clear about what I wanted, and you kept claiming iPad could do it, and I kept trying it, and guess what it can't -- at least not by way of any of your suggestions, nor by way of anything else listed under "books" or "ebooks" in the Apple App Store. I've tried about two dozen applets by now including the ones you suggested. I think its fair to say I've wasted much more time on this subject by now and done much more research into it than you have, so its not clear to me what *you* are complaining!
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