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Thanks for reminding me of this. I had tried this out on a small and simple PDF and it wasn't too bad. It had converted more than half of it into all bold because the headings were bold. (I'm assuming it missed some closing bold tags in there.) This could be corrected easily enough, but I"m not sure how an entire book would go over.
The thing to consider is that our digital books have editorial breaks, tabs, and other things. Some have graphics as well. Even with text-only books, there are major issues with formatting. Think of how a novel looks with paragraph breaks and indents, italics and such, and then imagine what would happen if something—just one thing—goes wrong.
When you're dealing with a back list of about 200 titles, the prospect of having to go into each one to fiddle around on a bunch of little things seems daunting.
I'll have to experiment with this Adobe tool some more. Maybe try to put a whole book through it to see how it chews on it.
Thanks again for the reminder.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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