I'm torn. While I agree that -anything- capable of displaying text should, in fact, be able to handle plain text at 80 columns, the reality of the situation is that not everything does, and in fact -most- portable reading devices aside from full computers do not.

Which is a crying shame, it really is.

But since I -do- want to take reading material with me, I tend to just convert it however I need to so I can have it with me.

I'm not saying Gryph should do so, nor should he change the writing style to make it easier or anything. Don't get me wrong. But my enthusiastic support of old-school techniques is sometimes overruled by convenience. :)

That said, Google can reveal several nifty tools for automatically converting plaintext to HTML. On average, it takes me perhaps a minute to slam any given EPU piece through a converter, and generally I just read it in HTML, since for some scatterbrained reason my smartphone supports that natively, but not plain text-at-80-columns. Going to ePub isn't a problem, though -- I tend to use MobiPocket when I'm doing that, and it'll produce an ebook in just a few seconds.

--sofaspud
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