jim said:
>   Not sure exactly who is doing what
>   re Kindle support on archive.org,
>   but something new is happening there.

"something" might be happening, and
it might be "something" that "someone"
wasn't bothering to do before now, but
it most assuredly isn't anything _new_...


>   I downloaded a "Kindle" book
>   from archive.org "at random"

what book?  and what was the exact method
by which this "random" selection was made?


>   and what I find is much more readable
>   than what I have found there in the past

can you be less specific?  i mean, seriously...


>    -- clearly some new OCR technology,

archive.org uses abbyy finereader.  always has.


>   readable, but surprisingly the OCR
>   doesn't bother to "heal" all the linebreaks
>   found within words.

thank you for your "summary", but without any
evidence for your points, it doesn't mean much.

there are certain things that archive.org and/or
amazon.com could be doing to make those books
useful and beautiful and powerful and accurate,
as i have been documenting in my current series...

whether archive.org and/or amazon.com _is_ doing
those things, or not, i don't really know -- or care...

-bowerbird