Karen Lofstrom wrote:
I should have expected that a community such as this, which contains no scholars and is often hostile to them (or should I be saying us? I'm an independent scholar, if not an academic), wouldn't understand.
I'm not hostile at all, but I have 2 objections: 1. The number of scholars using PG texts is epsilon. Scholars don't use texts digitized by somebody they don't trust. They digitize themselves or use facsimiles. 2. You should approach the relevant standard bodies, ie. IDPF and DAISY, and software companies, ie. Adobe and Apple, not PG. FYI PG does include page number entries in the EPUB TOCs it generates. The ebook readers just don't use them yet.
Part of the solution has to be ebook readers and software that make displaying scholarly apparatus, such as footnotes and sidenotes, endnotes and references, as well as the suggested chapter and verse numbers, easy to do. Also making annotations, inserting notes, making links.
If you get me a (substantial) funding I can hack FBReader into doing this. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org