walter said:
Stanza on the iPhone is great. Especially in combination with Feedbook, which provides proper formatting for many Gutenberg etexts.
stanza is ok. and feedbook is very good. but something about these sentences still rubs me the wrong way. i think it's the notion that "proper formatting" can be defined well. (to that end, perhaps you'd like to give us your definition, walter.) or perhaps it's the feeling that you probably haven't yet examined enough feedbook e-books to gauge its quality with much accuracy. or maybe it's the knowledge that feedbooks has likely cherrypicked the easiest books to format, and left the difficult ones for a later day. at any rate, i would encourage you to spend the mere $10 and buy the iphone app "eucalyptus", which pulls from the entire (english) project gutenberg catalog, and provides nice formatting (defined as "it looks nice", which implies that it is "proper" formatting as well), while using the plain-text files obtained _directly_ from p.g. itself. (feedbooks starts with p.g. files, but massages them to put them into its proprietary database. which is probably why it has only done about 15% of the project gutenberg catalog, at my last check.) *** andrew said:
I was impressed with Stanza when I saw that it appears to use utf-8
really? that's all it takes to "impress" you, is the use of utf8? you're not too hard to please... -bowerbird
Am 29.01.2010 um 06:12 schrieb Bowerbird@aol.com:
walter said:
Stanza on the iPhone is great. Especially in combination with Feedbook, which provides proper formatting for many Gutenberg etexts.
stanza is ok. and feedbook is very good.
but something about these sentences still rubs me the wrong way. Too Bad for You.
i think it's the notion that "proper formatting" can be defined well. (to that end, perhaps you'd like to give us your definition, walter.) [snip, snip]
at any rate, i would encourage you to spend the mere $10 and buy the iphone app "eucalyptus", which pulls from the entire (english) project gutenberg catalog, and provides nice formatting (defined as "it looks nice", which implies that it is "proper" formatting as well), while using the plain-text files obtained _directly_ from p.g. itself. Sure English great. What about Esperanza, German, etc ... In somebody#s definition that makes eucalyptus a non-app and a piece of ...
[snip, snip] andrew said:
I was impressed with Stanza when I saw that it appears to use utf-8
really? that's all it takes to "impress" you, is the use of utf8? you're not too hard to please...
Does eucalyptus handle utf-8. OH. it uses plain text !!! What a piece of ... Sorry, BB I think You did not due Walter and Andrew justice. They did not attack anyone and just stated their views. You could have just have just mention the advantages of eucalyptus. But, why be so sarcastic here. Just for the record I do not have either apps nor a iPod touch, just two iPods classic. ;-))) regards Keith.
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
andrew said:
I was impressed with Stanza when I saw that it appears to use utf-8
really? that's all it takes to "impress" you, is the use of utf8? you're not too hard to please...
Perhaps let me rephrase: That is one thing I was impressed by. And why? Because many other sites that reuse PG texts appear to not realize that different character encodings exist, or just don't want to deal with them. -Andrew
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