PG – new formats!
Project Gutenberg has been adding ePUB and Mobipocket formats to their pages over the last couple of days — I noticed ePUB for a few titles first, but yesterday afternoon ran into Mobipocket, too, then noticed some ePUB with images. Fantastic news as I suspect they’ll use the HTML file the Distributed Proofreader folks have created, which should provide a much better reading experience than the ones manybooks.net generates from plain text.
Some alternative formats have shown up from time to time on the PG site (MS Lit, Palm/DOC, RTF, Plucker, etc), but aside from the excellent, though under-recognized, Plucker format, they weren’t available for every title. ePUB seems to be showing up for more and more of the files on the site… perhaps ePUB really will be the final format?
PG’s advanced search page seems to be a bit broken at the moment, but Google can help find EPUB or MOBI files there:
EPUB (experimental) – looks like just about everything is showing up in ePUB eventually.