6 Dec
2010
6 Dec
'10
10:33 p.m.
It only proves that ease of access and a nice representation are valued over just having the content available in archaic ASCII-formats.
The sad thing is that many "for pay" "public domain" books on Amazon, and on other web sites do not even have as "nice a representation" as the epub and mobi books on the PG site. Some of the "for pay" "public domain" books are weak OCR efforts which have not even been corrected. Of course, with Amazon, you can ask for your money back. But it is sad to see others take the PG volunteers' efforts, degrade them, and then make people to pay for them.