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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Plucker may be GPL, but it's not really open enough (IMHO) to be on PG. Heck, FLAC is GPL, why not make all the audio books available in lossless FLAC format instead of just MP3?
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Possibly because the FLAC files are significantly larger, bandwidth is finite, the whole world doesn't have broadband, and the device user might have may not do FLAC?
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the Same silly reasoning to be honest. Just because it's GPL does not make it the right took for the job. And for PG, I don't think Plucker is the right took. There no easy way to deal with it.
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What's your problem with Plucker? The source is available, and the format is documented. PG provides Plucker files because they can do so in an automated fashion.
While I use Plucker as my default ebook viewer, I don't use the PG Plucker files. I prefer to roll my own, because I can include images and specify other attributes like compression, file names, and titles as shown by Plucker.
That would be problematic for PG, because you have the question of compression (None, Palm DOC, or Zlib), and image sizes and BW/Grey scale/color. Munseys and Manybooks, for example, don't include images even though the image files exist because they haven't found a good scripted way to do it.
What would you have PG do instead?
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Dennis