jon said:

But isn't that a form of markup?

i don't know. periods are markup, some people say. and blank lines between paragraphs. even the space between two words. so i don't know. define it however you want.

I thought markup was bad?

who told you that? markup, depending on how you define it, is whatever it is. it's not bad or good. it just is. having to _apply_ markup -- especially heavy markup -- takes a lot of time and energy, so that can be _costly_. but if it delivers _benefits_, though, especially benefits that cannot be obtained another way, then it _might_ be cost-efficient. you have to put it on a scale and weigh it. costs are bad. benefits are good. so you find the balance... if i could wave a magic wand, and have the entire library marked up, in x.m.l. or some other form of markup, i would love it. why not? or, alternately, if someone else is willing to do all that heavy markup for me, while i sit back and drink beer, i would love that too. why not? but if y'all are gonna sit around, for year after year after year after year, all the while intending to do x.m.l. markup, but never actually getting any done, what's the point? myself, i like my markup to be "invisible" -- to be _zen_. like spaces between words, blank lines between paragraphs. to _facilitate_ my understanding of the intent of the author. (illustrated by the underscores i just used to indicate italics, so you'd know that my intention was to emphasize that word. of course, it's nice if your viewer-program would _convert_ an underscored word to an italicized one when displaying it, as some viewer-programs will -- like ubook, for instance -- but in the absence of that, i'll trust your imagination to do it.) all of which has absolutely nothing to do with the case here. if there are two pages missing inside an e-text, _say_so_. say it right where they're missing, at the top of the e-text, on the webpage that lists all the e-texts with missing pages, in the newsletter, and anywhere else where you believe that it might come to the attention of someone who can and will _provide_ those missing pages. all of this is in keeping with a systemic effort to incorporate end-users as _co-creators_ and _co-owners_ of their planetary digital library. you dig? because the quickest way to get 20 million books digitized is for 20 million people to do one book each, then check one other. now _that_ would be distributing the workload! if anyone else wants to converse with me, today is your day. it won't be 4/20 tomorrow, so speak up now if you want... -bowerbird