Comments on: ePub files from Project Gutenberg: Tell PG how its test ePub works on your gizmo http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/18/epub-files-from-project-gutenberg-tell-pw-how-its-epub-files-works-on-your-gizmo/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:19:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ondigo http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/18/epub-files-from-project-gutenberg-tell-pw-how-its-epub-files-works-on-your-gizmo/comment-page-1/#comment-1023494 ondigo Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:04:04 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/18/epub-files-from-project-gutenberg-tell-pw-how-its-epub-files-works-on-your-gizmo/#comment-1023494 I downloaded the epub version of "Three Men in a Boat" to my Linux Eee PC. FBreader has had no problems with it so far. I downloaded the epub version of “Three Men in a Boat” to my Linux Eee PC. FBreader has had no problems with it so far.

]]> By: cerement http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/18/epub-files-from-project-gutenberg-tell-pw-how-its-epub-files-works-on-your-gizmo/comment-page-1/#comment-1023275 cerement Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:58:54 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/18/epub-files-from-project-gutenberg-tell-pw-how-its-epub-files-works-on-your-gizmo/#comment-1023275 Does this mean that they've abandoned <a href="http://pgtei.pglaf.org/marcello/0.4/doc/20000-h.html" rel="nofollow">PGTEI</a> as their XML platform? Does this mean that they’ve abandoned PGTEI as their XML platform?

]]> By: Joseph Gray http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/18/epub-files-from-project-gutenberg-tell-pw-how-its-epub-files-works-on-your-gizmo/comment-page-1/#comment-1023205 Joseph Gray Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:15:18 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/18/epub-files-from-project-gutenberg-tell-pw-how-its-epub-files-works-on-your-gizmo/#comment-1023205 While I applaud them for providing epub, I think that at some point these files need to be proofed/fixed by a person. Their comment that the possible bad formatting is "good enough" for reading is a fallacy. Bad formatting makes an ebook harder to read and understand. It only serves to annoy the reader. Yes, I know that epub is currently experimental with Gutenberg and yes the files are free. That doesn't mean that a reasonable effort shouldn't be made to make epub readable, as they have done with their other formats. I wonder if any of their auto-converted epubs will even validate? Hopefully, after this experimental period, they will put the same effort and care into epub as they do the other formats. While I applaud them for providing epub, I think that at some point these files need to be proofed/fixed by a person. Their comment that the possible bad formatting is “good enough” for reading is a fallacy. Bad formatting makes an ebook harder to read and understand. It only serves to annoy the reader.

Yes, I know that epub is currently experimental with Gutenberg and yes the files are free. That doesn’t mean that a reasonable effort shouldn’t be made to make epub readable, as they have done with their other formats. I wonder if any of their auto-converted epubs will even validate?

Hopefully, after this experimental period, they will put the same effort and care into epub as they do the other formats.

]]> By: ferridder http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/18/epub-files-from-project-gutenberg-tell-pw-how-its-epub-files-works-on-your-gizmo/comment-page-1/#comment-1023164 ferridder Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:56:04 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/03/18/epub-files-from-project-gutenberg-tell-pw-how-its-epub-files-works-on-your-gizmo/#comment-1023164 Wow! Not that it is too hard to convert from HTML yourself, but it's great to see institutional support for it! Wow! Not that it is too hard to convert from HTML yourself, but it’s great to see institutional support for it!

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