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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Well I think we need to keep in mind that PG has been running for over 35 years. And part of its goal is to make sure works are available in a format that literally can be read on any computerized device (Even if the resulting text might look very ugly).
I hope you do recognize that many of the works now come in alternate formats including html and epub... at least some of these have more advanced formatting present in them.
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One that I just got from PG the other day was Twain's
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which unfortunately was in a pretty sorry state. Granted, I didn't get to see the mobi or epub versions, but the html was unfortunate. Lucky for me, there was another resource on the internet that had the text, though I'm not sure of its correctness or completeness (as Harry pointed out). At least it had some italics, which was a relief. Just had to delete all the images and page numbers.
Saw it at the bookstore under the Penguin Red Classics logo and considered picking it up, but it's one I keep putting back down after some careful thought. There are a bunch of classics that I thought valuable enough to stomach a reading on the ebook reader, but not quite valuable enough to purchase in a real format. Besides, their Dante typesetting, while consistent and good looking on decent paper, isn't really what I think ideal for reading something like Huck Finn.