Joshua wrote:
You're missing the point I'm trying to make, Michael.
Keep the history. No problem. Just don't make it the DEFAULT that pops up when someone does a search. Joe User couldn't care less about our history. He just wants to read the book. So, give him the book that he CAN read.
Good point. I agree with this.
Put the "historical mistake" in the OLD subdirectory, where it is still available for those of us that care about such things.
Now, to show support for Michael's reasoning, PG definitely needs to make a strong point about the importance of using easy to repurpose open standards for formatting etexts. But mixing obsolete proprietary formats with usable formats actually works against making this point, as Joshua notes. It also aggravates users who may want to read the work, but can't (and thus they will develop a negative view towards PG.) I say move them to a special directory so they are *easier* to find, and then create a web site describing why proprietary formats are bad (especially those which are very difficult to repurpose even when the format is published.) Provide links at this web site to those works in the collection using proprietary formats. I guess one could call it a "PG Hall of Shame" collection. <smile/> Just a suggestion. Jon