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Old 07-10-2012, 12:32 PM   #41
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I like it, but...

I like the idea very much, but instead of an indiscriminate thread it may be better to build a "database", maybe in wiki format. However,
  • define "error". Do you really want to track every OCR error?
  • what about the version/format/vendor of the ebooks?
  • of course this should only track official, legal versions - not any, ah, "darkspace" creations

Most importantly, what is then to be done with such a database?

Have every reader fix his own ebook? (which requires DRM circumvention )

Report it to the publisher? (who will of course gladly allow customers to download the "fixed" edition free of charge... not! )

Directly make the corrected versions available... that would be ideal but will immediately be shut down as piracy.

A special case may be "lost" sections / paragraphs. \

I just posted an example from Patrick O'Brian's Aubreyad series here (it may be irrelevant if the ebooks are fixed...somehow I doubt it).
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