Lee,
I am in favor of continuing to have text editions of every
title. I've done some Activities for the One Laptop Per Child
project. Their first e-book Activity could only do PDFs. I
made a second Activity in Python that could read plain text
files and I've read a LOT of PG books with it. Now OLPC has a
reader that can do PDF, DjVu, EPUB, CBZ, and plain text.
I later wrote a book on how to write Activities for the Sugar
platform and my sample code was based on my plain text e-book
reader.
HTML, EPUB, and MOBI are all great formats but making HTML
that converts nicely to EPUB and MOBI for use on a Nook or
Kindle is not trivial. Formatting poetry and family tree tables
is problematic, for one thing.
Whatever comes along in the future, we'll always have plain
text. I'm cool with that.
James Simmons
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Lee
Passey
<lee@novomail.net>
wrote:
On Thu,
December 29, 2011 3:22 am, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
> (In the spirit of Amazon press releases:) More Kindle
files downloaded
> from PG on xmas day than any other file type:
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/pretty-pictures
Based upon these graphs, 81.65% of the interest in Project
Gutenberg is in
HTML files, or one of their encapsulated equivalents. Only
11.5% of the
downloads are for impoverished text.
Boy, these people are sure going to be pissed when they find
out that HTML is
fading into irrelevancy, and impoverished text is the
future. (What's the
emoticon for "tongue-in-cheek"?)
Talk about the tail wagging the dog...
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