[madwab]

Hi, folks, I'm new to ebooks and to the forum, but I've had a hunt around the net and around this forum, and I'm hugely disappointed in two things: (a) most of the books I've checked have lost the formatting of the original, in particular the author's italics, and (b) there doesn't seem to be much interest in the community about this issue.

Given that italics can change the tone of a sentence quite drastically, surely it's important that they're retained? I understand that a lot of books have been saved as .txt files at some point in their lives, but I'm sure that's not the only explanation: I have the impression that most people don't care.

Have a look for Les Miserables on amazon's Kindle store - there are 67 matches, most of which are the Isabel F Hapgood translation, which uses italics. None of them are free. I've downloaded the sample for most of them, and I haven't found one that has retained the italics.

A few days ago I updated my Dickens novels collection from mobileread.com, and was very pleased to find that all of them were formatted correctly; but the Les Miserables file is just another modified .txt version.

Is it just me, or are others frustrated by this? (And can anyone point me at a formatted version of Les Mis?)