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