I wonder if it would be possible to have, within the confines of mobileread maybe, a thread/sticky/wiki entry purely devoted to the listing and evaluating of e-book sites. Most of the information I'm thinking of is already out there, but it's all over the place - some in e-book news, some in Iliad Content etc. What if we had just one point of access for all that? Entries could read something like
Project Gutenberg - Public Domain books, large number of titles, do your own formatting
or
http://books.google.com/ - not all titles available as single download, some scans appallingly bad
etc.
I realize there are sites out there that list e-book resources, but very few of them grade them in terms of useability, none that I've seen are user-editable like a wiki entry, and a mobileread site could focus on individual hardware requirements - you know, this site is good for Palm PCs, but lousy for the Iliad, that one is good for the Sony Reader, but sucks for others etc..
I waste a lot of time looking for books online and locating promising-looking sites only to find out at the very end that they don't meet my requirements - they only have formats available that I have no use for, or they only have scans instead of true electronic documents... Wouldn't it be great to have something like the epinions.com of e-books?
Thoughts?