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Originally Posted by Katsunami
For this once, I'm agreeing with JSWolf.
2. Mimic a real book, including markup, images, front cover, and metadata such as author, title, blurb...
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Hmmm so the first few lines of a text file I have around that state:
Code:
Title: Three Men in a Boat
(to say nothing of the dog)
Author: Jerome K. Jerome
Release Date: October 19, 2010 [eBook #308]
First Posted: August 28, 1995
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
doesn't qualify as the author, title, language, etc. "metadata"? The next page titled
Preface is not a blurb for the book? Images? Not a strength for a text file but then I've read quite a few dead tree books which lacked cover images or images mixed with the text. Ah... the good old days of woodcuts. Hmmm... a lot of words and phrases with _ at each end. By Jove! _Italics_!
BTW, this was the first file I remember downloading from Gutenberg.
Please note that I am not arguing that PDF is a good ebook format but rather that it is an ebook format. Jon seems to be falling into the
Hasty Generalization fallacy as I remember from the old days on a school debate club. "
I read one news item that said that Nixon was a great president so he must be a great president." without considering all the evidence from multiple sources.
Hmmmm... to quote Robert Heinlein from
Glory Road:
Vox Populi, Vox Dei translates as: “
My God! How did we get in this mess!”
And George Santayana from "Reason in Common Sense:
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it often misquoted as
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Mentioning Tricky Dick brought back memories.