Thank you, Psymon. I'm looking forward to it. I forgot to mention one big caveat on my part, though, that may turn out to be an unsurmountable stumbling block: I refuse to read even
slightly "modernized" (read: bastardized) editions of classics.
I love EPUBs, and I detest PDFs, but if you give me the choice of reading Thoreau in a superbly crafted EPUB edition where someone presumed to mess with Thoreau's original punctuation, spelling (let alone word choice), etc., and a
scanned/photographed PDF edition of the text
exactly as it was published during Thoreau's lifetime (ideally under the writer's personal auspices)...
... well, given
that choice, I'm always going to opt for PDF (and GoodReader on iOS) containing the 100% pure, unadulterated Thoreau.
In other words, I'm a fan of the "Library of America" publishing principle: preserving every single letter and punctuation mark as it was contained in the original edition. (There's a very nice technical term for this in the German publishing industry:
wort- und zeichengetreu.) To all publishers, wherever they are, I'd like to say: "Please, don't mess with our classics. If you feel the irresistible urge to 'correct' them, do so in editorial footnotes, without touching the original text."
So I hope you're producing your Thoreau e-books from such
primary sources (ideally released during Thoreau's lifetime), Psymon. If not, I'll be unable to read your Thoreau editions, for which I apologize in advance.
There are likely many readers out there who will appreciate "modernized" or "adjusted" texts by classics; I'm just not one of them.
</off-topic>