michael said:
If you have a point to make, you missed.
i think lots of people got the point. but you evidently missed it.
Take better aim and try again, or give it up.
my aim is true. i've done enough. i have no need to "give up", _or_ to continue. the future is the entity that will deal with this. doesn't matter how much friction we generate. the future will deal. and this is how the future will do that dealing: 1. it will need to tell which texts are accurate and which are not, because it will find itself awash in e-books without provenance... 2. it will do this determination by comparing digital text to scans. (it will test the validity of the scans by comparing them to p-books.) 3. digital text which retained pagination/linebreaks will lend itself better to this comparison process, so it will generally tend to "win", and the "best practice" will come to require this aspect, and strictly. 4. digital text which is difficult to get to (e.g., zipped up in .epub, obscured by some opaque format, unduly burdened by d.r.m., etc.) and text which has discarded its pagination/linebreaks will lose out. i have no interest in engaging in "debate" on these 4 points, because it's perfectly clear to me that they're all _inevitable_. the question here is whether p.g. wants its e-texts in group #3 or #4. -bowerbird