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Here's a tease for you... I think I found another good source of the Harvard Classics, but it may not be "completely complete", so to speak. And it seems to include both txt and pdf versions (where the pdf version shows the actual scan of the page).
I have to admit that I'm starting to appreciate pdf more and more. When it comes to preservation of books in electronic form, a combination of scanned pdf and OCR'd html/rtf/txt really seems to be best. You get to see what it really looks like with accurate scans, and have the ability to convert to many formats from a text-based version. And if you just have the txt, you lose a some of the "flavor" of the book.
I predict that as e-book readers (and UMPCs) get better, we'll become a lot more excited about the combo of text and pdf. It's horribly frustrating to have the pdf without reflowable text for small screens or less powerful devices, but when hardware is better and the text option is available, I think we will start to appreciate the pdf a lot more (the ones that really look like the book because they have the actual scans).
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