walter said:
> Stanza on the iPhone is great. Especially in combination with Feedbook,
> which provides proper formatting for many Gutenberg etexts.
stanza is ok. and feedbook is very good.
but something about these sentences still rubs me the wrong way.
Too Bad for You.
i think it's the notion that "proper formatting" can be defined well.
(to that end, perhaps you'd like to give us your definition, walter.)
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at any rate, i would encourage you to spend the mere $10 and buy
the iphone app "eucalyptus", which pulls from the entire (english)
project gutenberg catalog, and provides nice formatting (defined as
"it looks nice", which implies that it is "proper" formatting as well),
while using the plain-text files obtained _directly_ from p.g. itself.
Sure English great. What about Esperanza, German, etc ...
In somebody#s definition that makes eucalyptus a non-app and a piece of ...
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andrew said:
> I was impressed with Stanza when I saw that it appears to use utf-8
really? that's all it takes to "impress" you, is the use of utf8?
you're not too hard to please...
Does eucalyptus handle utf-8. OH. it uses plain text !!! What a piece of ...
Sorry, BB I think You did not due Walter and Andrew justice. They did not
attack anyone and just stated their views. You could have just have just mention
the advantages of eucalyptus. But, why be so sarcastic here.
Just for the record I do not have either apps nor a iPod touch, just two iPods classic.
;-)))
regards
Keith.