greg said:
>   The "say" is that we're all anxiously awaiting any completed eBooks
>   demonstrating any or all ways of doing things.

ok, i will take you up on that.
i've prepared some material,
and programmed a demo app.
where can i upload it?


>   There will not be any decision about the official way of doing things
>   (if there ever is) until some people create demonstrations.

well, i've created one demo already, and will make more.  but...

how about if you correct the examples you've already got up,
on the basis of the constructive criticism i've already offered?
until you've done that, you're not really ready for many more...


>   It's clear that light programming at gutenberg.org
>   to make a given demo work is available. 

i don't need any programming help, thank you,
just some server-space to upload my examples.

and, so that i can make examples using your content,
i need for all of your scans to be individually available,
rather than bundled up into a .zip file, or a djvu file...


>   So is server space there or elsewhere. 

just give me a u.r.l. where scans will be located.

one thing that hasn't been discussed thus far is
the generation of a "scan-set" for the e-texts
that are a "new" project-gutenberg publication,
i.e., an amalgamation of _several_ source-texts.

(jon, try to control that sputtering that is about to
well up in your throat right now; it will soon pass...)        ;+)

for the sake of completion across the library,
they should have an associated "scan-set" too.

***

nonetheless, greg, i think you're getting
a bit ahead of yourself here, aren't you?,
and falling behind at the same time.

or at least doing things in the wrong order.

there's lots of scan-sets sitting around.

it won't do much good to put more up
until you know what you want to _do_
with them once they've been put up...

i know what you _should_ want to do
with them, but i don't get the feeling
that _you_ do.  (or they'd _be_ up.)

so why don't we all discuss _that_?

once you've got that figured out, then
i'll deliver to you the app that you need,
and the decision about how to structure
your scan-sets will be a lot easier to make.

it's been rather entertaining to watch the
silliness of people making design decisions
without much awareness at all of the tasks
for which those decisions are being made.

and no, i'm not going to "just tell you".
(well, i already have, several times now,
but i guess that's beside the point, since
nobody appears to be listening very well.)

you don't deserve to have the answers
handed to you.  further, if you have to
tell me what you want before i deliver it,
you won't be able to deny that it is right
once i have delivered it to you...

so c'mon, show me you're smart enough to
figure out on your own what you need here...

-bowerbird