marcello said:

If I understand this right, the etext is hard-coded into the reader?

for the demo, yes, it is. both the text and the download u.r.l.s are hard-coded. it wouldn't make sense to do a demo program differently.

So you'll have to program a reader for each of the 16.000 ebooks?

for the actual program, no. what would be the sense in that?

And that from the guy that always said marking up was too much trouble.

get it straight, marcello. i said that markup is _costly_. and that it might not be _worth_its_benefits_. (especially considering that most of the hype will not be realized, for one reason or another.) but whether markup is "too much trouble" depends on whether _i_ do it, or _you_ do it. if you do it, i don't think it'll be "too much trouble" at all. indeed, i'm impatient for you to start to get to work on it. and i've waited for several years. what is your hangup? -bowerbird