>i'm still waiting on jim to show up, so i cranked out
the .mobi version of the file, 'cause he has a kindle,
so i assume he'd like to see what my stuff looks like.

God help us all if PG were to implement BB’s BB-centric view of the world where all of us have to support BB, instead of BB writing tools that actually help support the creation of good books for PG.

>i don't have a kindle, so i would be very happy
to receive any feedback on how the file works.

Learn how to use the “Shift” key on your keyboard BB, it would helpful in emails, and in such places as in your coding of book titles and author names, which show up all lower case in your MOBI implementation.

Which starts with a gratuitous horizontal rule, following a gratuitous “v?”

Title page lacking in formatting

Cover ugly but better than what PG currently provides.

Start marker not implemented.

Table of Contents not reasonably formatted, and contains nonsense page numbers.

Gratuitous “Hot” before “Contents” in the Table of Contents

Gratuitous double-rule before the TOC (MOBI can implement good quality rules if you insist on rules -- which are generally a bad idea.  EPUB doesn’t even support good quality rules, so, for consistency I would think you would want to avoid the use of rules entirely. Or fake them using mdashes, for example.)

Gratuitous double-rule before dedication, which lacks sensible formatting, and is written in a font which is too small.

Gratuitous double-rule before Chapter headings, which lack sensible formatting.

Use of double-dash where mdash is intended, and uses spaces around the double-dash where PG house rules is no space around mdash.

Gratuitous “@@@” multiple places, left aligned.

Poetry implemented using gratuitously ugly “code” font, and not properly formatting into lines of poetry.

“The End” formatted, capitalized, and styled poorly.

Front Cover repeated at the end of the book.

Gratuitous “v?” repeated at end of the book.

Table of contents repeated at end of the book.

Front Cover repeated yet again at the end of the book.

Other than that, this very simple book (from the point of view of formatting and style) consists simply of words formatted into paragraphs, with occasional italics, and you get that aspect of the book correct, fortunately.