We often forget the old tools.
AWK is available for windows, as are
mawk and
gawk.
This page links to tutorials and contains some scripts. The textpipe folks say textpipe is better than awk -- quicker to program. Awk is free, has useful variants, and lots of free scripts and tutorials. Your choice.
Awk and sed have been around since the beginning of time. There are forums for getting help and getting scripts. Imagine writing an awk script that formats your Gutenberg text files just the way you like them and then running that script in batch mode on entire directories. Explore the world of
awk scripts.
Or you can use E-Book Tidy. Thanks monkpalmer. It is always good to have a choice of tools.
Gutenmark takes Gutenberg text files and converts them to
nicely formatted HTML. Oh, how I wish I could use HTML on my Reader!
Replacing ASCII quote marks with the left and right versions ought not be difficult for an awk script writer. If you want a one-click solution, write the script and then upload it here.