time after time, i have offered to collaborate with people on this listserve to do a project... nobody, including michael hart, is interested. over the years, a lotta people here called me names, called my work "vaporware", said it was "impossible" to do what i suggested, and insulted me some more. throughout, i have continued to do my research. i've learned a lot in the process, and i've wanted to pass this knowledge along. but nobody cares. i've offered bits and pieces of my work repeatedly, and nobody even looked at it, as far as i could tell. and yet those same people came back at me with bogus "vaporware" charges, over and over again... it's as if they think that if they refuse to look at it, it doesn't exist. that's how freaking stupid they are. meanwhile, people at d.p. struggle to make e-books, because they don't have the best tools they could have. i work hard. i've done a lot. i've created some stuff that it would be _good_ for you people to know about. but i'm tired of trying to bang sense into your heads. i have asked you to take some extremely small steps, just give daily feedback on a project that evolves daily, and you're not even willing to do _that_, even though with my guidance you could have something awesome in a matter of weeks, since i know the territory so well. i'm not gonna work my ass off to _hand_ you something, when you can't even be bothered to write a simple post saying "i would like a program that did x, and y, and z." i'll go off and show the rest of the world what i know, because they are actively looking for a _simple_way_ to make electronic-books. i offered it to _you_ first, so you could have offered it to the world as your baby, battle-tested and all, but you weren't interested in it. and while i am showing it to the world, i will be here, too, every day, telling you how you could have had this thing, but you were too proud and stupid to know you wanted it. even though you are still struggling every day, trying to invent the things that i already have working perfectly well. so call me all the names you want, you twisted individuals, because i am tougher than you will ever be, count on it... -bowerbird