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Turns out the PDF had "mea " (with a space on the end) and then moved the next letter back so it overlapped the space. Looked fine in the PDF, but we had to clean up the mess to do an eBook. Dave |
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Well, it is hard to say based on a single word, but those "extra spaces" might easily turn out to be "soft hyphen" characters. Soft hyphens are indication to the reading/printing software where it is acceptable to break a word if it is at the end of line. Most likely cut&paste "filtered" out those codes and gave you spaces.
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I bought 'The Hobbit' the first day it was available on eReader.com. Every 5 sentences or so a space was missing inbetween two words. Today I downloaded the file again and in the new version this is fixed. I guess it is time to add a revision number to ebooks.
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What needs to happen is eBook shops need to have a system in place to be able to inform the customer of new editions of eBooks purchased so we can download the new versions. Otherwise, we may never know when an eBook has been updated.
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