People, people,
From the standpoint of an archivist, I have to fall on the side of keeping all file formats available and accessible to the reader. PG is as much a historical catalog as it is a library. How hard is it to have the search page list ALL of the files we have in our collection under that name (pssst ... much like we have now?). Leave it to the discretion of the user to download the format they wish to.
If the Folio files aren't listed along with the others, how will our readers know they are there? Some solutions: 1. List all of the files in PG per book, along with a legend that explains to the user what the formats mean. 2. Put up an info page that lets users know ALL file formats we carry. I'm happy to help put this together if appropriate. There's nothing wrong in keeping archive formats around. As Chief Wiggum says, "I hope this has taught you kids a lesson: kids never learn." Maitri --- Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
Michael Hart wrote:
Please stop trying to rewrite history. . . .
Please stop kicking history in the teeth of people who don't care and
just want to read a book.
This should be kept as a straighforward example of what can and DOES happen with proprietary formats.
It should be kept, yes, but not in the main archive. Please, write a "Hall of Shame" page or something and link the files from there.
-- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
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