jim said:

The "fun" part of all this is that to be effective PG has to be willing to meet PG users "where they want to read" which ever-increasingly means the need for useful and effective implementations of ePub and Mobi books, an area where even a casual inspection of PG offerings will display that PG continues to frequently fail.

you're right, jim. p.g. does continue to frequently fail there. however, other entities -- most significantly archive.org -- fail in even worse ways, indeed often in _spectacular_ ways. which introduces us to my next post... -bowerbird