michael said:
>   For those who worry about BB and "perfect" eBooks,
>   the following should ease that worry greatly!!!

i must admit i can no longer tell when you are serious,
when you are misreading me, and when you are joking.

but i've been _perfectly_ clear, and consistent, all along.

i say a book that has 1-error-or-less-every-10-pages
is _perfectly_ ready for release to the general public,
with the explicit understanding that we do all we can
to encourage and make it easy for that general public
to help us in moving the books toward _perfection_...

i hear lots of chestbeating about quality -- both by those
who argue for it, and those who argue otherwise -- but i
see very little activity productively engaged in attaining it.

i've also done scads of research on how to develop tools
and processes that will help us improve on our accuracy,
and means by which we can have the general public help.
precious little of my progress has been utilized by anyone.

i'm not hung up on perfection -- it's nigh unattainable --
but neither have i ever been willing to have any other goal.

i consider my position to be a fully reasonable one, and
i've been perfectly clear on it, and preached it consistently,
since the start.  if you heard anything else, you misheard.

-bowerbird