Re: [gutvol-d] More than you ever wanted to know about XHTML and CSS (gutvol-d Digest, Vol 9, Issue 23)

On 4/28/05, Lee Passey <lee@novomail.net> wrote:

This objection, and Marcello's response, are both based on a faulty assumption: that the primary use of HTML files will be online, served up by some sort of HTTP server. I would bet that the vast majority of all HTML files offered by Project Gutenberg are downloaded to a local computer, and then read while offline. I know that _I_ have never read a PG e-text directly from the web server.

But you don't know--you can't know--that it's a faulty assumption. You know how you do it. No one reading it via a library terminal downloads it, though. I usually read books online.