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Old 11-25-2011, 07:29 AM   #1
Cerulean
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Thumbs down Poor quality of ebooks

Hello everyone,

I've recently purchased a Kindle and started reading immediately, but I've come across a major problem. Ebooks seem to be of generally poor quality, and riddled with awkward line breaks and irritating spelling mistakes that can no doubt be attributed to OCR without proofreading. I thought this was because I had so far only downloaded free books from the public domain, but according to several forum posts all across the net, paid books and even those sold by Amazon also suffer from quality issues.

I don't particularly enjoy complaining like this, but all those errors are a huge obstacle to immersion. In one instance, there were so many different spellings of one character's name that I had to google which was the right one to continue reading.

TL;DR is there a way to find better ebooks? Am I the only one with this problem? Will I have to return my kindle and go back to proofread books?

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