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I can think of two possible primary goals for this project:
A prettier format for LWers to review the Sequences in, allowing easy full-text-search. A refresher and trophy.
A tidier, better-organized, more approachable update of the Sequences to introduce entirely new people to the ideas therein.
If the latter, brevity is a virtue. Every 50 pages longer the eBook gets probably takes a significant chunk out of how many people read any of it at all. So there's a lot of reason to excise everything unnecessary to an Appendix. And to shunt the Appendix off into a separate eBook of its own. ("The Out-Of-Sequences.")
An alternative (or complementary) solution is to divide the Sequences into several separate volumes, each no more than 250 pages long. Then you can be given the option either of downloading a single eBook that collects these volumes, or of downloading the separate eBooks and choosing a favorite one to send to a friend. Makes for a drastically less intimidating Christmas present.
We may later decide to release particular sequences as ebooks, especially the Quantum Physics sequence.
That's the one.
This is outside the scope of this project.
They'd be more easily bought as books then too.