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View Poll Results: Do you edit eBooks? | |||
Yes, always or most of the time. |
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43 | 31.39% |
Yes, sometimes. |
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17 | 12.41% |
Yes, but only to fix issues |
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38 | 27.74% |
No. |
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35 | 25.55% |
Other (specify) |
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10 | 7.30% |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 137. You may not vote on this poll |
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Custom User Title
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Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Canada
Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD
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Do you edit your eBooks?
Out of curiosity, do you edit or format eBooks to your preferences?
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o saeclum infacetum
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: New England
Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5
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No. I don’t care enough; it’s always good enough, mildly irritating at worst and not worth the effort. Generally they’re fine as they come.
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Wizard
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: USA
Device: sony prs-350,Nook HD+, Kindle 2nd gen, kindle keyboard
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I do not know how and I don't care enough to learn.
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Wizard
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Device: PW3, Fire HD8 Gen7, Moto G7, Sansa Clip v2, Ruizu X26
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I prefer my books as individual novels. Sometimes I will buy an anthology. And sometimes I will split up that anthology into individual books. But not always. It's random when I decide to do this. |
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Wizard
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Join Date: Sep 2021
Location: Australia
Device: Kobo Libra 2
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Always.
Every single book. What could possibly fall under "Other"? |
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Bibliophagist
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Karma: 153006036
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Vancouver
Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos
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Any ebooks in my calibre library have been touched to clean up metadata and covers, remove text-align: justify from the CSS, set the default font size to 1em, corrected any errors found by epubcheck, etc. For most books, it takes a couple of minutes and make my reading experience more consistent and enjoyable. For the most part, much of the cleanup is done by saved search groups in Sigil since my attitude is that if a task has to be repeated, let the computer do it.
I will read a book without that touchup but I find it annoying since it makes it harder to immerse myself in the book. |
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Gentleman and scholar
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Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Space City, Texas
Device: Clara HD; Nook ST w/Glowlight, (2015) Glowlight Plus, Paperwhite 3
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I always open the ePub just to check that the book isn't a mess. In general, if the text is justified, there's aren't spaces between every paragraph and the whole book isn't in one file (and this is most books now), I'm good.
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Groupie
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Join Date: Nov 2015
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I pretty much always change cover. Even when I'm very lazy, when I'm not even sure that I'll read the book, I'll do something like this sample. I'll find an inner title (or whatever this is called) somewhere online, and I'll quickly edit it to target readers resolution.
Sometime I'll replace one cover with another, sometime I'll find a photo of first edition cover on an auction site, and use that, but most of the time I'll just make my own using my photos as background, and title and author in fonts of my choosing. My readers make a nice display piece like that, even though they look tacky, I suppose. Other than that, I'll sometime experiment with initials and first words of chapters, and change chapter size and title. But all of that really rarely. I did fool around with embedding fonts a lot, before readers started to support custom fonts. Lately, I've also started to rip archive.org books into pdf's. A somewhat lengthy process of questionable legality. They have books there that are available to be borrowed, but you can't download source files, or pdf's... So I really don't know, but I guess that I'll keep doing it. ![]() |
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Wizard
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Join Date: Sep 2021
Location: Australia
Device: Kobo Libra 2
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Wizard
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Device: Kobo Clara HD, iPad Pro 10", iPhone 15 Pro
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I clicked other... with the answer being "very rarely". I'm not a re-reader, and I'm not one to keep tons of books on my device -- and I'm not too picky about the formatting.
I do occasionally set some custom book-specific CSS in KOReader, but that's temporary and goes away when I delete the book. An example of this was one of the Discworld books where every time there was a subject change I was confused because the paragraph breaks were only a few pixels wider than normal paragraph breaks, so I'd be a few sentences in or more before realizing the subject changed and would be confused -- so I set some custom CSS to put a horizontal line between the paragraphs when that happened (luckily it was a different paragraph style making it easy to do), which made the book MUCH easier to follow. |
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Wizard
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: UK
Device: Kobo Forma, Icarus, iPad Mini 2, Kobo Touch, Google Nexus 7
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Other, usually to fix bad spelling and OCR artifacts on old non-commercially available books.
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want to learn what I want
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Join Date: Sep 2020
Device: Calibre E-book viewer
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I would answer: 'Often!' Not always. Not most of the time. Not just sometimes.
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Grand Sorcerer
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Estonia
Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2
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Always, every single one. Formatting, I mean; I don't bother with typos, unless I notice them while editing the formatting.
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Wizard
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Join Date: Sep 2022
Device: Kobo Libra 2
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I will if the book is seriously malformed (e.g. one file for the whole book) or if I hate the cover art.
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