07-18-2013, 04:42 AM
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Typos
Hi. I have an ereader not listed here. It's Telefunken brand. I got it in Kmart, Australia. It's a simple ereader, doesn't connect to wi fi or anything like that. I got it to download free books from gutenberg, which works fine. However when I download books from anywhere apart from Gutenberg, eg google, or various university archives (they are old books) even though I download in epub they turn up on my device with many typos. I can view the book online and the text is perfect, no typos, but when save to my device the typos appear. Can anyone advise me? Thanks.
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07-20-2013, 07:47 AM
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When you view the book online, you're seeing images of the scanned pages. When you download the ePub version, you're getting a "raw" ePub created using an OCR application. These will generally be of very poor quality.
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07-20-2013, 09:28 AM
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Use the Mobile Read library for your books. They are very well done.
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