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Old 05-19-2011, 01:15 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by dwig View Post
While you're researching this, I would suggest that you look at other online libraries with an eye to what formats they offer. Project Gutenberg offers HTML, ePUB, MOBI, Plucker (why?, I don't know), QiOO, and TXT(UTF-8). Project Gutenberg Austrailia offers only TXT and HTML for most titles. The University of Adelaide's ebooks@Adelaide offers only HTML (formatted for web display only) and ePUB (for download).
like any volunteer organization Project Gutenberg offers whatever formats volunteer users are willing to generate. They are not based on any user need study. That is why Plucker is in the list. HTML by itself as an ebook format is terrible, no embedded images, lots of separate files. It is supported primarily since the internals of epub and mobi require similar formatting engines. It is really only ok for web display as you mentioned.

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