
So, is anything measurable coming our way? Or are you just wasting everybody's time?
You are now playing BB's game, namely you propose tools which do not work and then tell the PG community that it is our job to support you, the would-be tool maker. There are many many well-formatted books at PG, including many coming from DP recently. Start by reading the DP guidelines, and looking at the HTML code they are using, for example. And historically De Vinne has many many good books about what it takes to make an attractive paper-based book which can be used for understanding of how attractive books were made -- and also the dynamics which lead to ugly paper books being made. I just mentioned one of these recently. Make the commitment the rest of us have already made, if you haven't already, and purchase a MOBI and/or an EPUB device, buy and read some commercial ebooks, as well as reading PG free ebooks, and you will rapidly discover what works and doesn't work, and how there are people out there who know how to do it "right" -- which isn't too hard really! -- and how others continue to generate garbage that doesn't work because they continue to deceive themselves. And/or they work for authors or publishers who don't know what they are talking about and force the eBook transcriber to take approaches which really really doesn't work. Also, "Kindle Formatting" by Joshua Tallent gets much of it right re the MOBI world, not that I agree with all his detailed suggestions. Ultimately for the book transcriber getting most of it right isn't a problem. The problem is that each non-trivial book leads to unique challenges where one says "gosh, how do I code this part to correctly represent the intent of the original author/publisher while working on almost all of the HTML/EPUB/MOBI devices out there?" There are already a ton of tools out there that "kind-of help" translate txt files into html -- except they typically generated garbage HTML code. Which leads most of us to rapidly figure out "fugettaboutit" -- its easier just to write HTML by hand.