
Let's back up a step, and see if there is some areas we can agree on, namely there are a variety of areas that pretty much every book has which are "simple as dirt" yet the books PG posts are still not handling these "simple everyday items" in a robust and reader-enjoyable manner. 1) Paragraphs. PG is still serving books, frequently, like all the time, with broken paragraph formatting. 2) TOC. Hard to implement in HTML and to get it to work "right" on the major platforms. 3) Blockquotes. Similar issues to paragraphs. 4) Illustrations. Hard to get right. Will work on some platforms and not others. Some submitted illustrations don't work on some platforms. 5) Covers. Every book should have them, and they ought to be easy to implement. 6) Title page. Again, pretty much every book should have them, and they should be easy to implement. The title page info should not have to also be submitted redundantly 12 other places. 7) PG Boilerplate. Should be implemented in an attractive and non-obtrusive manner, which does not scare off the readers, nor make PG look like idiots, and should be written in such a manner as to convince most readers that the boilerplate is actually a good thing to their advantage. 8) Statement that this book is "risen to the public domain" and what that means. The implication that PG is giving away this book is false, because the book is not PG's to give away. Rather, the book belongs to the public in the first place. 9) A clean, fun, positive-feedback way to submit books to PG, such that people WANT to submit books to PG, rather than do so grudgingly. 10) A clean, fun, easy, robust way to preview and "smooth read" one's work and formatting and "conformance to standards" testing before submitting it to PG. So what I claim we need is a simple method, using universally available and well-supported tools, to do these kinds of "dirt simple all the time" things, and do them in a way that actually works on BOTH the submitters side, and PG's side of things. Such support need not be implemented in terms of this, that or the other language. Nor does it matter much whether it is implemented client side or server side or a mix thereof.