On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
Michael Hart wrote:
How much harder is it to make an eBook set up to answer all these scholarly and reference questions, than just to read?
Providing source information and page numbers is easy. So it is to provide the page scans. Of course: page scans != ebook.
Marking up a book to satisfy most scholarly requirements is more work than I would care for, short of being paid to do it.
A big bug/feature for me is page number, bold, italic, underscore, etc., I would prefer an eBook without them. . .they are just too distracting, I just want to read the CONTENT not the FORM. I have heard people mention that creating both kinds of eBooks should be easy from one session, but I'm not sure if anyone is DOING it. BTW, bold, italic, etc., also mess up a lot of search/quotes. Michael