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02-12-2021, 01:51 PM | #61 | |
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Excessive spelling and grammar errors, on the other hand, make me crazy. Of course, past experience tells me that generally neither of these will cause me to go to the trouble of "fixing" the book...I generally just read it (if possible) or give up on it (if ignoring and reading isn't possible). In the second case, I do complain to the author, or publisher, or vendor, or in one notable case, all three. I guess I'm just lazy. Shari |
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02-12-2021, 02:03 PM | #62 | |
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I have tried complaining to the author/publisher/vendor but in most cases, it's been cold pancakes and no honey. In one case, the author/publisher didn't appear to know the difference between reign, rein and rain and was quite happy to inform me that they were not misspellings so she didn't see why I would complain. I did wonder about an author for whom writing that Queen Victoria had "rained" for over 63 years was not an issue nor was her apparent ignorance of the fact that she had written her book 3 years after Queen Elizabeth II had reigned for longer than Queen Victoria so referring to Queen Victoria as the longest "raining" monarch in British history was incorrect. |
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02-12-2021, 02:36 PM | #63 |
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Project Gutenberg books can be annoying but are easy to clean up and fix. But some many of the books I've gotten from Amazon are rather amazingly ham-fisted with their CSS. I used to try and fix their CSS but it's so much work that I've resorted to simply deleting all of theirs and replacing it with some basic minimal CSS that does the job. The main downside to this way is when they use spans for bold and italic so I've taken to looking for that and adding their class to my .bold and and .italic.
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02-12-2021, 03:32 PM | #64 | |
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I'll clean up their mess if they'd like to pay me for my time. |
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02-12-2021, 03:35 PM | #65 |
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What eBook(s) have you seen that were worse?
My one worse eBook was a an eBook where there were some errors in the CSS and because of this ADE tossed out the entire CSS and you got just defaults. I was able to fix it and then read it. |
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02-12-2021, 03:39 PM | #66 | |
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02-12-2021, 05:40 PM | #67 |
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I hate my kindle because of the web browser, which after the Kindle Keyboard was deliberately made worse.
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02-12-2021, 05:45 PM | #68 |
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I live my Kindles, I have no use for the browser though. I only use my Kindle for what it is meant for an ebook reader
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02-12-2021, 06:59 PM | #69 | |
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Dump the Kindle an buy an Onyx Books Android 10 based Reader and put a better web browser on it. |
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02-13-2021, 05:28 AM | #70 |
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Onyx Boox Poke is definitely an option, but it pisses me off that Amazon kept the browser and made it worse. If the function of the Kindle was meant only to read ebooks, they would have removed it entirely. In an ebook reader the browser is used only to comfortably read Wikipedia and must be able to reduce, comfortably, the most complex pages to text. It doesn't have to compete with tablets. In this sense Boox Poke with Android is even exaggerated.
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02-13-2021, 06:25 AM | #72 |
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02-13-2021, 06:48 AM | #74 |
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02-13-2021, 09:22 AM | #75 | ||
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