Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
How hard would it be to have two options on the download. One with just text and one with text and images?
Not very hard on the technical side. Very hard on the administrative side. "Images" is not a clear cut boolean choice. 1. We don't know which ebooks contain essential illustrations. Some ill-advised PPers have started producing books with such useless fluff as drop caps (included as images) fancy horizontal rules (included as images) etc. Including those will only put off PDA users. 2. You can include pictures at different resolutions and color depths. We'll soon start producing files with 1bpp, 4bpp, 8bpp, 24bpp, original size images, scaled images etc. Every new variant will reduce cache hits. We don't have enough CPU power to generate all those variants. If you want images, you can run the plucker distiller on your PC and adjust all these parameters to your hearts content. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org