6 Feb
2012
6 Feb
'12
6:21 p.m.
Carlo>But PG has some 40000 books that don't have a good master format, and fixing a typo in a book having the standard hand-crafted 4 formats (HTML, txt-UTF-8, txt-8 and txt-7 (ASCII) requires to fix 4 files and regenerate the other ones. And the problem will become worse if we allow hand-crafted epub and kindle files. And the only way to get those 40,000 books to some hypothetical super-uber-format is to blind format down-convert them which in the process converts those file to "blind formatting", something which PG has always said it would not accept, because blind formatted files contribute nothing.