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Originally Posted by Hadrien
Correct but I don't value the creation of an end-format version as much as a proper source. A TEI/DocBook/DTBook version is infinitely more valuable since you can pretty much create anything out of it. The reason why I can instantly turn inline footnotes to real footnotes in every ePub/Mobipocket file on Feedbooks the next time that I upgrade our system is because we properly mark them as such. A book produced with Book Designer on the other hand will probably have hyperlinks instead of a distinctive mark-up for footnotes.
The real value is in creating the structure of the book or using a proper mark-up for semantic elements such as footnotes (and in the case of the average public domain book, proper proofreading/typesetting).
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That I strongly agree with. In some sense I feel that the creation of end-format versions here is wasted work (in the tradition of publisher makeing a paper book and throwing away the data files :-). It would be much better if the proof reading and work is fed back to a version that in the future can be used to create other end formats. Also all the work to proof read should also really be fed back to Project Gutenberg in the case of Gutenberg books.