since david rothman brought it up before thanksgiving, i was gonna talk about formats, even before turkey-day. but then time ran short, and i didn't want to plug up everybody's e-mailboxes during the long weekend... so i was gonna talk about it this week, but held back because they're having some interesting discussions over on the distributed proofreader forum boards... but i promise i'll get to it _first_thing_ next week, ok? :+) and if you'd like to refresh yourself with that dialog about .epub over at the d.p. forums, here's the u.r.l.:

http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=41237&start=0

and here's where the conversation picked up after thanksgiving:

http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=618157#618157

or, if you want to examine the place where it turns philosophical:

http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=620316#620316

-bowerbird