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Edit: Also, i thought publishers had the same version across all stores? I was thinking about getting a Kobo Glo since the Paperwhite is having so many QA issues but if there's a chance their library of books may be of different quality then Amazon's.... which i would think the publishers are more likely to listen to if a problem with a certain book's quality should arise, with the Kindle's giant customer base. Sorry if this post isn't clear, i'm a bit tired right now. And dizzy. Also, thanks for all the help guys! ![]() Last edited by Big McLargeHuge; 11-10-2012 at 07:07 PM. |
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I got it, this isn't a rough spot It's the DALEKS!!! Most books don't have rough spots but total destruction of the text. LOTR was bad, but acceptable. Most ebooks are way worse and shouldn't get the 'rough spots' excuse. They get death. |
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Can you give some examples of commercial ebooks where the text has been totally destroyed? |
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I can check tomorrow, to see which ones. but threr were a lot that I quit reading because of this. |
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yea, I'm anal about errors that distract me and interrupt my concentration. I recently bought several Harlan Ellison books from both Baen and Kobo. These are produced my Edgeworks and the quality ranges from good to bloody awful. Some of the books had not been proofed at all, save for a quick run through a spell checker, maybe. The result was that in one story there were references to "heaters" and "beaters". I finally figured out that since the "heaters" and "beaters" were always overhead that the correct term was "beaters" and it was slang for helicopter. There were many other errors like this as well as the well know scanning errors, "die" for "the". On some of the books the formatting and layout sucked dead bunnies. Margins that take up almost a quarter of the screen width. Introductions to stories that follow without a break from the previous story and then have a page break at the start of the story. I find it hard to believe that anyone actually looked at the book on any reader. Of the books I read, the quality of about half the books (not the writing) is just bloody shit! There is simply no excuse for this shoddy level of quality for something that I'm expected to pay for. I can find higher quality books on usenet. Yea, I'm anal and I'm pissed by these ebook error.
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I've had one eBook where the formatting was non-existent because of errors in the CSS. I was able to fix the CSS and read the eBook. But if I could not have stripped the DRM, I would never have been able to get at the CSS to fix it. That one was never looked at after being "finished". If it was, it would have been seen that the formatting was not there.
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I don't think you need worry about it. I buy lots of eBooks (about 5 or so a week, normally) and have never come across one that has more than the occasional OCR error in it. Plus, if you buy from Amazon, you can return any eBook for a full refund within 7 days of purchase.
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