01-26-2014, 06:24 PM | #511 |
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Darn Kobo and their coupons!! Every time they suck me in with those codes trying to complete series... And, then I have to go and purchase NEW bargains (har har) so that I end up with even more incomplete series.
So, a not so good week... But my average was only 1.98, so I can live with that, I guess Another pretty good week reading. One stinker that made so angry! I even left a review on GR - I rarely leave full reviews, I don't think I'm very good at them. So unless I feel really strongly about a book, I usually just rate them. But I had to review that 2 star to get the anger off my chest and let it go. The rest of my reads were good though! So yay |
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Just saw this in my email.... I have the Vinet, but not the other two. I know there are Christina Skye fans on here, so thought I'd pass along
Pirate Hearts: Plundering Love on the High Seas - .99 US amazon (don't see it on kobo) Quote:
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01-26-2014, 07:37 PM | #513 | |
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So you remember that horrible Bobbi Smith topaz book Forbidden Fires I bought for 99 cents? After working on it all yesterday I now have a good readable copy and learned alot in the process.
First off it was a PITA to do but I feel like I've conquered the format now. I first had to extract the SVG images, then use Notepad+ batch replace to remove the scripts from each page. I use this post as a guide only doing the first 3 steps. I use Acrobat 8 to merge the pdfs files then crop them. I then ran it through OCR software. I use Able2Extract (which isn't free but cheaper than ABBYY) I find it does a much better job interpreting letters and less weird characters than ABBYY but it takes about an hour to convert but it really worth it not having to fix every page for OCR errors and yet still have my italics. Once that was done I ran the html file through PSPad cleaning up the styles using Tidy and then open it in Word and fixed the formatting and broken sentences using my macros and regex expressions. I then put the finish html file in Calibre and converted it to mobi and epub. Now I got the method down I can do this in probably 3 hours if I don't run into problems. So that's one topaz book down and several more to go! |
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Jo Goodman's My Steadfast Heart is .99 at Amazon This is the first in her Thorne Brothers Trilogy. This is a great series - highly recommended!
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I have used a scanning service those $1 book scan and was not too happy with the quality I have learn many editing skills from horrible formatted books I have purchased over the years from places like Amazon or Smashwords. I'm still learning though so much I want to know how to do and yet to figure it out.
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IIRC a few of you have mentioned Tiffany Snow - Kathleen Turner series. Looks like they're on sale for $1.99 at Amazon right now.
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I ended up converting my PDFs to RTF and going through line-by-line comparing with the print version or original PDF. This was before Calibre could use Word docs. I also learned a lot the time I had to totally repair two books which were in ePub but had horrible formatting/scanning issues. Enough that I know I really don't want to do it again Also a higher percentage than I am happy with of the Harlequin Treasury titles I bought during the BIG sale are like that, too. It frustrates me because these are books that should have been corrected at the publisher's end. A few typos/scanning errors are okay, but when there are two or more on every page...grrrr! |
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I just finished another topaz book into a readable copy. I realize one thing I am trying to solved Hyphenation right now I am going through each one and manually fixing it. Ugh! For some reason all the em-dashes are really strike through text so I am having to do a search and replace on those with real em-dashes. Those are my two biggest time consumers. |
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On Sale @ Amazon $0.99
Sandra Marton Classic Box Set Note: These are old Harlequin Presents back titles. You get 5 of them for under a buck! What a deal! I wouldn't call these novels though they are category romance length and HP's are pretty short compare to other HQ imprints. Quote:
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