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1. You don't read any real books (dead tree) because you've lots of ebooks waiting.
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I don't read many ebooks lately either, because I am too busy converting more books to EPUB!
Last time I read a book was 02.10.2014, and maybe read half a chapter.
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2. You stop reading finished ebooks in ordinary readers because you've read them already when you "made them fit to read" them in Sigil.
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I don't read while I edit.
As theducks said, I typically just am running in "overview mode" while quickly scanning for errors.
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3. You've not the read the book properly because you were too worried about the layout.
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When I actually do get around to reading a book, I read SLOOOOW, because I am hunting for every single little typo/mistake.
If I am reading in bed, I write it down on a piece of paper next to my bed, and make the fixes next time I am on the computer.... and if I am reading on the computer, I fix it right there.
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4. You realise that you've lost the meaning of a sentence because you were too worried about where the punctuation went.
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Or when punctuation magically gets introduced, for example, depending on the fonts, a fancy italic 'm' might turn into a "m,".
Although I usually catch all punctuation errors way back at the OCR stage or the Regex stage.
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5. You've given up reading in text views and just use code view because you can see bad coding which is hidden when the text seems to work OK, but will need correcting - Just In Case.
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Yep, I do everything in Code View, and hideous code MUST BE CLEANED for maintenance purposes.
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<p>The overwhelming majority of our contemporaries cannot understand the ascetic ideal. But once one rejects the principle of the ascetic conduct of life, one cannot reproach liberalism for aiming at outer well-being.</p>
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is much better than:
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<p class="s1">The overwhelming majority <span class="c5">o</span>f our <span class="c6">c</span>ontempo<span class="c5">r</span>aries cannot un<span class="c5">d</span>erstand t<span class="c5">h</span>e ascetic ideal. But o<span class="c5">n</span>ce one rejec<span class="c5">t</span>s t<span class="c5">h</span>e principle of the ascetic conduct of life; one can<span class="c5">n</span>ot reproach liberalism for a<span class="c10">i</span>ming at outer well-bei<span class="c5">n</span>g.</p>
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The code itself should be readable to the human eye.
Note: Yes, this is a real example of an EPUB I just got a few days ago.
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6. You have a guide to CSS permanently loaded on your tablet. If you have a guide to regex permanently loaded on your tablet then you have it really badly.
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Permanently loaded into my brain maybe.
Regex, I have a ton saved up in Sigil Saved Searches, but most of the time I create them on a case-by-case basis off of the top of my head.
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7. When you read a well-edited mobi version of a book, you make sure you have an epub version to hand - just in case you spot something which needs editing. And then you always DO spot something that needs editing.
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I don't touch MOBIs... but I DO quite often do a lot of A/B code comparisons with other sources (for example, pulling HTML off of a website, and comparing the text, quickly OCRing a version off of Archive.org and comparing the two texts together).
For example, I just did an Archive.org PDF of the First Edition of a book, compared with the Third Edition of the book (to see exactly what changed).
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8. You keep all the epub versions you can find of a book, so that you have the maximum chance of getting a conclusive reading. And then keep a pdf version as well so that even bad OCR might give a proper clue.
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I don't trust ANY conversion I find 100%.
I always try to store the source material.
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9. You buy a paper copy of a book so that you can determine what the only corrupt ebook should have said, so that you can have a good ebook which you got to save you finding the shelf space for paper books.
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Nah, I don't go this far! Wasting money on a physical book? BAH!
A physical book is only allowable in the extreme case that a book just DOESN'T EXIST online in any form... then it is allowed, only for the purpose of digitization.
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10. You get given an audiobook, and your first instinct is to start loading Audacity so that you can alter the recording levels if it's a bad transfer from cassette.
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Not too big on audiobooks, but it does irk me when what is said in the audio =/= exactly what the text says (happens quite often in games, makes me want to pull my hair out!).