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Old 03-14-2012, 10:56 PM   #46
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Old 03-15-2012, 10:18 AM   #47
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Old 03-15-2012, 10:22 AM   #48
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Where did you find it in ePub???
Well, you could get it here at Mobileread and convert it to ePub using Calibre.
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Old 03-15-2012, 03:12 PM   #49
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Old 03-15-2012, 03:13 PM   #50
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Old 03-15-2012, 03:21 PM   #51
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Just to add fuel to the fire, RTF, DOC, TXT, PDF, WEV are not eBook formats and LIT, FB2, REB, KF8 have been left off the list.
If we define eBook formats to be those that JSWolf likes, sure.
People were reading TXT eBooks a long time before ePub et al even existed.
It was the default format for Gutenberg books, and unless this has changed in the last few years, they still require an 80 column wrapped TXT version to be submitted.
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Old 03-15-2012, 03:23 PM   #52
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If we define eBook formats to be those that JSWolf likes, sure.
People were reading TXT eBooks a long time before ePub et al even existed.
It was the default format for Gutenberg books, and unless this has changed in the last few years, they still require an 80 column wrapped TXT version to be submitted.
Plain text is not what Gutenberg serves. They serve text with markup. There is a big difference.

If it was just what I liked, then we'd not have Mobipocket, KF8, PDF, PDB.
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Old 03-15-2012, 03:48 PM   #53
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If we define eBook formats to be those that JSWolf likes, sure.
People were reading TXT eBooks a long time before ePub et al even existed.
It was the default format for Gutenberg books, and unless this has changed in the last few years, they still require an 80 column wrapped TXT version to be submitted.
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Old 03-15-2012, 03:50 PM   #54
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Plain text is not what Gutenberg serves. They serve text with markup. There is a big difference.
Can you explain to me what text with markup means? All the years I've been using Gutenberg, plain text has been the primary result of all the proofreader's work. That text is then converted to various Real Ebook® formats.

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If it was just what I liked, then we'd not have Mobipocket or KF8.
Really...?
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Old 03-16-2012, 11:29 AM   #55
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Old 03-16-2012, 03:19 PM   #56
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Can you explain to me what text with markup means? All the years I've been using Gutenberg, plain text has been the primary result of all the proofreader's work. That text is then converted to various Real Ebook® formats.
_your_ <-- That is italics

-- <-- that is an em dash.

*Chapter 2* <-- That is bold

Those are examples of Gutenberg's text markup.
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_your_ <-- That is italics

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*Chapter 2* <-- That is bold

Those are examples of Gutenberg's text markup.
Ah.. plain text. Thanks for clarifying.
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Ah.. plain text. Thanks for clarifying.
Yes. So when converting to another format, we can keep the bold, italics, em dashes, etc. since there is markup for it.
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It's time for an UNUTTERABLY SILLY POLL!

What was the format of the last e-book book you read?

Poll options taken from Smashwords lists. Gimme a second.
I knew I would miss someone's favorite format, so I engineered it so that you can all take it up with Smashwords.
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