BB>hand-crafted versions are simply impossible to keep up-to-date. I'm not sure I understand this passionately held opinion. OCRs of books have a *finite* number of scannos which need to be "hand-crafted" to remove those scannos. The important features of books need to tagged, and the visual identification and categorization of that tagging is a "hand-crafted" activity. Finally, the book needs to be rendered in an attractive manner on a variety of families of target devices. Specifying those formats is "hand-crafting" and visually checking whether that effort, indeed any final effort, is a "success" or a "failure" is also a "hand-crafting" activity. I think what you-all are talking about are attempts to *partially* automate some of these activities, which is fine, but the ultimate measure of success is not the ability to automate, but whether the final book being read on a final customer device ends up being a worthy result or not. The end customer, frankly, doesn't know and doesn't care what we-all had to do to get there. You can complain about "snowflakes" all you like, but if the final product is not worthy, all that happens is that which happens right now: People on other forums complain about how the books on PG are crap and how in the course of a weekend they were able to create a much better version which you should now download from their site instead of PG's. End result, their site gets the credit, not PG, and the readers of that book then don't understand that that book came from PG, was the work of a lot of volunteers, and if they like these books then maybe they can step up and help make books too.