jim said:
I still think there is some fundamental misunderstanding here.
there is. and it will remain here, until you decide to change your tune.
Using the iPad I go on the web to PG. I see a ePub book I like there.
you mean that you see a _book_ you like there. a _book_ that is offered in a _number_ of different formats, including .html (which can be read in the web-browser) and as a plain-vanilla .txt file, which can be read in many apps... your problem is that you want to insist on a certain file-format. even though i'm not fully convinced that one cannot find a way to get an .epub onto an ipad to read in the app that one wants, i _might_ be inclined to take your word for it (since i don't care). but don't try to pretend that because you cannot get an .epub, you can't get "an e-book", because i don't play nonsense games.
I don’t see how you can say that the iPad “readily displays” something when it explicitly tells me that it refuses to display that something!
you just can't give it up, can you, jim? i mean, seriously, you are _incapable_, aren't you? but how long do you expect people to take you seriously when you _persist_ in making such nonsense arguments? what book -- what _book_, not some particular file-format -- what _book_ is it that you claim the ipad is refusing to display? -bowerbird