Comments...

Hi.  I originally just wanted to look in the list archives to see if this has
already been discussed but I had to subscribe first for that.  I decided I'd
post after all.  Apologies if this is the wrong list but it's the best list I
could find.

Anyway, my comment was that when reading books from Gutenberg that have images,
the images seem awfully small.

Searching the website brings up

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Public_Domain_eBook_Submission_How-To

    Don't try to keep the highest resolution possible — for HTML, we typically presume 96 DPI (dots per inch) with 256 colors, which is a "medium" resolution. 

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:HTML_FAQ

    If you're an experienced HTML maker, you know this stuff; if you're not, take it as a guideline that you should generally aim to keep your images in the 40K to 60K size range...

    Since most people will be viewing these images in a browser on a screen with a resolution below or around 1000 pixels wide, you should mostly make your images not much wider than 600 pixels.

The same images that people use in HTML end up used in epub, and this FAQ is so
old that it encourages people to use images that are absurdly small by modern
standards.  On my 264 DPI tablet, 600 pixels is somewhat over 2 inches wide.
I suggest changing the suggested image size to be less 2004.  The DPI and
width should be at least doubled, if not more.  I know, they're suggestions
and you're not going to reject a book for having bigger images, but even
optional suggestions have a big effect on what people do.  You may as well
suggest that people keep their file size limited to that which fits on a
5 1/4 inch floppy disk.

(You also ought to increase the size of every image you already have, but I
can't even imagine how much work it would be to do that to thousands of books.)

Other comments: Someone mentioned errata being a problem.  I tried submitting
two errata for a Jules Verne book.  The first was a simple typo and was
accepted, so it is possible to send in an erratum.  The second turned out to
be in the source material and was rejected because of that....

Jules Verne is also a problem because certain translations are notorious for
poor quality and PG may not necessarily have the best public domain
translation.

I also looked for a copy of Varney the Vampire on PG.  You have one, but 
it's a shortened edition that doesn't include all the chapters.  There is a
version with all the chapters online at University of Virgina Library (though
with missing images).  I have no idea how to report this.
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