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webrunner wrote:

That would make sense, I suppose... so in my example you could look up the stat bonuses of a Potatelf, the 3rd level spells of a Spudmancer, but not descriptions of the methods of transportation available to people living in the world of Fryrun?

That is my assumption, which is fine for me. The only things I'd be interested in buying in PDF format is stuff that is heavy with fluff, such as Eberron books. Then I could search through all PDFs for a certain keyword or phrase and find all instances in all books where that topic is mentioned. Adobe Reader provides the convenience of clicking the search result to see the exact location of that occurrence.

webrunner wrote:

It would be nice if there were flat text versions of the 'fluff' also available.. just to make them easier to skim (since a PDF is page-by-page and reading stuff on a screen makes page-by-page kind of difficult)

My personal desire would be to have a searchable online encyclopedia maintained by WotC that could consolidate all of the fluff text. Imagine Eberron for example. Every time a new supplement comes out and it expands upon the description and fluff about a particular topic (e.g. - Cyre/The Mournland), The entry for the mournland could be updated on the site. As of right now, we have several books that each describe the Mournland/Cyre with some information being repeated across all of them. If they were consolidated, you'd have a single resource that included everything.

This is actually what I am doing with my own 3.5 Eberron books now that 3.5 is at an end. I'm culling together all of the supplements into single entries that I am maintaining electronically.