[gutvol-p] Re: a question about the format about plain text ebooks

You should also be aware of common Project-Gutenberg-isms that modify the author's (or at least the publishers') use of punctuation, that what was italic in the original text may be marked up using one of a variety of differing markers, and that the choice of spellings depends strongly on date of original pub, and whether the original pub was published in England, US, or Australia -- and/or whether that original pub's spelling was modified somewhere along the way. This is assuming that you are doing some kind of linguistic analysis so that you might care about these kinds of issues. "Plain Text ASCII" being something that is actually very ill-defined.