Re: Annotated Alice -- that's fantastic, but can it really be legal?

I think the problem with the layout is the page encoding. For example, in Firefox if you go to "View" -> "Character Encoding" -> "Japanese (Shift_JIS)" then it looks the same as the Google cache.

Right you are!

Re: sbutler: Exactly. The page identifies its encoding as "SJIS", a non-standard abbreviation that IE and Google recognize (and that Google translates to "Shift_JIS", the preferred MIME name) but that Gecko-based browsers do not. The poor layout is because when the Shift_JIS is interpreted as ISO-8859-1 (the Gecko-based-browser default), there are some long nonwrappable strings characters on the Japanese side, so the English side gets made super-narrow to compensate.

I actually have a hard copy of The Annotated Alice -- just bought it on Amazon a few months ago. I have to say I was disappointed. Some of the notes are interesting, but a lot of them seem to be, "Reader So-and-So wrote in to tell me this or that factoid, and to point out this other thing that sort of relates to something that touches upon Alice." The layout is weird, too -- some of the notes are so long they extend well into the following pages, so that the subsequent notes aren't on the same page as the text they're referencing. Meh.

"The layout is weird, too " so preserves yesterday,preserves temorrer, and no jam today.