----- Original Message ----- From: Gutenberg9443@aol.com

I think this is a strong argument for continuing Michael's practice of posting everything in English in .txt AND whatever else rather than in whatever else by itself.

No one has advocated doing away with .txt as a posted format. The closest I can recall is a suggestion to do away with 7-bit ASCII text files. Deleted accents never made much sense to me anyway, so I certainly wouldn't cry over the loss of 7-bit ASCII. The only books that should be unavailable in text are ones that physically CAN'T be done in text, such as the complex mathematical works that requires TeX and PDF work. If anyone finds a book that does not have a text version posted should contact the bugs email address at PG to get that fixed ASAP. Josh