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busybee · 03-01-2009, 03:59 AM

I agree with ProDigit's initial post and support HTML for archival and source purposes. EPub is a close second, but after converting an illustrated HTML book to EPub, adding ".zip" and unzipping it, I notice only that important elements of my original formatting had been lost, so I am not interested in collecting ebooks in EPub format (in effect converting common HTML into obscure XML). Since some 9,000 of Project Gutenberg's collection (in English) is already in HTML, and since HTML IS ubiquitous/universal (as distinct from EPub's putative should be, can be, will be), I don't see a better alternative at present to zipped HTML.

I'm serious about collecting books in HTML and hope MR is the place this can be done. The only support needed would be to add, to the E-Books Upload section, a forum called, "HTML Books." Is this too much to ask? Along this line, almost all the books posted to the "Other Books" forum are LIT, so it looks like a "LIT Books" section is needed as well.

I'm not interested in collecting books in multiple uneditable formats. I've uploaded some MOBI books, but HTML was the source, and I suspect that the prolific uploaders who post four versions of each book are also working from HTML source. I'd rather upload and download editable HTML source. Who wouldn't?

03-01-2009, 03:59 AM	#28
busybee Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 348 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Arizona Device: none	I agree with ProDigit's initial post and support HTML for archival and source purposes. EPub is a close second, but after converting an illustrated HTML book to EPub, adding ".zip" and unzipping it, I notice only that important elements of my original formatting had been lost, so I am not interested in collecting ebooks in EPub format (in effect converting common HTML into obscure XML). Since some 9,000 of Project Gutenberg's collection (in English) is already in HTML, and since HTML IS ubiquitous/universal (as distinct from EPub's putative should be, can be, will be), I don't see a better alternative at present to zipped HTML. I'm serious about collecting books in HTML and hope MR is the place this can be done. The only support needed would be to add, to the E-Books Upload section, a forum called, "HTML Books." Is this too much to ask? Along this line, almost all the books posted to the "Other Books" forum are LIT, so it looks like a "LIT Books" section is needed as well. I'm not interested in collecting books in multiple uneditable formats. I've uploaded some MOBI books, but HTML was the source, and I suspect that the prolific uploaders who post four versions of each book are also working from HTML source. I'd rather upload and download editable HTML source. Who wouldn't?