Classic New to Nook - Question marks in sentences???

pcantral · 10-01-2010, 08:50 PM

Is there a way to disable question marks appearing in the middle of sentences and at the end for no reason. I'm a bit lost and just downloaded my first book. Help.

Madam Broshkina · 10-01-2010, 08:58 PM

Did you download this book from B&N or from another source?

pcantral · 10-01-2010, 08:59 PM

Barnes and Nobles.

sherman · 10-01-2010, 11:07 PM

If the book was bought/downloaded from Barnes & Noble, then you should contact B&N with the issue. Hopefully they will alert the publisher of the ebook and (maybe) get a new version up.

The problem is with the ebook in question, not so much the nook itself (probably). Either an incorrect encoding was used somewhere during the book's creation (in which case there may be ?'s where emdashes and the like should be), or the ebook include special characters that don't exist in the nook's font (in which case the ?'s will happen within words)..

Ryan_Phx · 10-01-2010, 11:14 PM

I've seen people post issues like this on the official B&N forums, and an administrator (Michael_V) usually forwards the issue to their content people.

Poppa1956 · 10-01-2010, 11:45 PM

Personally, I've only seen this sort of thing in books free books — from B&N and elsewhere— in particular, scanned books from Google Books or internet archive with some poor sort of OCR in place.

DiamondDave · 10-04-2010, 10:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Poppa1956

Personally, I've only seen this sort of thing in books free books — from B&N and elsewhere— in particular, scanned books from Google Books or internet archive with some poor sort of OCR in place.

Yeah, what's the book? Just because it came from B&N doesn't mean it wasn't a poorly scanned, dusty hardback from the Yale Library with OCR errors. Usually the new stuff is clean because it's the same digital text that the print copy gets (in theory).

kilmar · 10-08-2010, 02:10 AM

I've see the ? and other weird symbols as replacement for special characters like umlaut. In one case, I sideloaded a Word document where the quotation marks were non-standard and I saw weird symbols replacing them. I have seen this on ebooks bought from BN also.

10-01-2010, 08:50 PM	#1
pcantral Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 442 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Nook	New to Nook - Question marks in sentences??? Is there a way to disable question marks appearing in the middle of sentences and at the end for no reason. I'm a bit lost and just downloaded my first book. Help.

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10-01-2010, 08:58 PM	#2
Madam Broshkina Manic Do Fuse Posts: 2,312 Karma: 3325462 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: Sony 500, 505, 350, Kindle 3, DXG, nook, Irex DR800SG, iPad	Did you download this book from B&N or from another source?

10-01-2010, 08:59 PM	#3
pcantral Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 442 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Nook	Barnes and Nobles.

10-01-2010, 11:07 PM	#4
sherman Guru Posts: 856 Karma: 2676800 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Taranaki - NZ Device: Kobo Aura H2O, Kobo Forma	If the book was bought/downloaded from Barnes & Noble, then you should contact B&N with the issue. Hopefully they will alert the publisher of the ebook and (maybe) get a new version up. The problem is with the ebook in question, not so much the nook itself (probably). Either an incorrect encoding was used somewhere during the book's creation (in which case there may be ?'s where emdashes and the like should be), or the ebook include special characters that don't exist in the nook's font (in which case the ?'s will happen within words)..

10-01-2010, 11:14 PM	#5
Ryan_Phx Enthusiast Posts: 39 Karma: 1660 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sandusky, OH Device: Galaxy Tab S2, Nook, Kindle DXG	I've seen people post issues like this on the official B&N forums, and an administrator (Michael_V) usually forwards the issue to their content people.

10-01-2010, 11:45 PM	#6
Poppa1956 Evangelist Posts: 487 Karma: 344188 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Oregon, USA Device: Verizon Ellipsis Tablit w/Kindle and Nook apps.	Personally, I've only seen this sort of thing in books free books — from B&N and elsewhere— in particular, scanned books from Google Books or internet archive with some poor sort of OCR in place.

10-08-2010, 02:10 AM	#8
kilmar Connoisseur Posts: 65 Karma: 500 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: nook color, nook, Sony PRS-700	I've see the ? and other weird symbols as replacement for special characters like umlaut. In one case, I sideloaded a Word document where the quotation marks were non-standard and I saw weird symbols replacing them. I have seen this on ebooks bought from BN also.

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