In a message dated 10/20/2004 4:41:26 AM Mountain Standard Time, marcello@perathoner.de writes: Well same limitations for PDF. It hasn't stopped people from buying paper books. They've da** well stopped ME from buying paper books. I CAN'T READ THE BLOODY THINGS! I have about 800 paperback books right beside my bed that I CANNOT READ IN BED and most of them are in no other format. I read them in the living room, using a magnifying glass when necessary. Most of my hardcover books I can still read in the living room, but I can't read them in bed either. I'm to the point that I would far rather read a hundred- year-old book on screen than a brand new one on paper, even if it's a topic in which I am extremely interested. I'm really not interested in converstion from XTM or XTL or whatever it is, if you're expecting the reader to do the conversion. Back to my third-world schoolmaster with his donated 486 and a slow CD reader--if we send him a CD of PG books in English he can read them and he can use them to teach his students English, which will greatly improve their chances of finding decent work when they are adults. But he can do this only if the books are in TXT format. Please. I am not trying to start a flame war. I detest flame wars. I am simply returning, again and again, to Michael Hart's original vision. No matter what ELSE we do to the texts, we are betraying what makes PG special if we require everybody to have this program or that program which probably won't run on most obsolete or obsolescent computers. All this other stuff sounds grand. I wish I could understand it. But I can't. Neither can 99.9999999% of the other people who use PD. Anne