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I've also knit now for nearly 40 years. I still knit toques of real wool, but do acrylic from time to time when giving as gifts. I have friends who prefer the real warm insulation of wool and if they are sensitive they wear it as a top layer (2 toques) in days where its -20 windchill. |
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Pirates are really good at this stuff, and don't do it out of pragmatism, they do it out of an unfortunate sense of pride. |
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WOW so it is all an ego trip.
I guess that should not surprise me but for some reason, it does. |
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I'm curious as to when you think piracy began. The use of the term "piracy" to describe the unauthorised copying of books, dates back over 400 years. See, for example, the complaints about piracy in the introduction to Thomas Dekker's book "The Wonderfull Yeare", published in 1603. His pirates appear to have been motivated solely by greed.
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In general I agree, but .. That assumes any and all differences between the two files are related to watermarking. It would be easy to change enough different things to make simply dropping all differences not doable. Repackage text from the end of one file to the beginning of the next, constantly changing the characters used to generate whitespace (and in unicode there are a large number of different whitespace characters) change used and unused glyphs in fonts, make every image unique, etc. Effectively you are hiding the real watermark changes in a forest of other small meaningless changes. If you dropped everything that was different based on a byte for byte comparison you would be left with a mess that is effectively unreadable without hand work to clean it up. Whitespace in text cleanup might be automated but which version of which image or font are you going to use or do you want to try and edit all of those as well. So all they need do is make enough changes to render it more bother than it is worth. Quote:
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03-28-2012, 05:31 PM | #237 |
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Reposting my question which seems to have gotten lost a few pages back: How are the special fonts handled in the American versions of these ebook files? (I'm thinking mainly of the Marauders' handwriting in book 3.) Are these just embedded images, or truly embedded fonts?
I'm thinking about buying the series as gift for a family member with bad eyesight, so if I can't resize the text, it sounds like we may be better off going with the UK version with no fancy fonts or illustrations. |
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I have the fonts - can you direct me to directions on how to easily do this? I have Calibre but have not done more than simple conversions and organization with it. I'd prefer the UK books but would like the nice fonts in them. thanks
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