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Forum: Calibre 05-24-2012, 09:02 PM
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Views: 2,119
Posted By WarnerYoung
Option for removing soft hyphens?

Sigh. Soft hyphens worked great in the old eReader.com PDB files, so I've been dutifully adding them in my ebooks. However, now that I'm using ePub files, they don't show up. I originally thought...
Forum: General Discussions 04-23-2010, 11:07 PM
Replies: 223
Views: 37,915
Posted By WarnerYoung
Which format of ebook was it? That might make a...

Which format of ebook was it? That might make a difference. I found a number of errors in The Lord of the Rings (eReader.com's PDB format), but when I looked at an excerpt of it in B&N's EPUB...
Forum: General Discussions 04-20-2010, 11:00 PM
Replies: 223
Views: 37,915
Posted By WarnerYoung
Honestly? I don't know. The only thing I can...

Honestly? I don't know. The only thing I can think of is simply to vote with my pocketbook, and let the publishers know it. This applies not only to bad ebooks with errors, but also to ebooks that...
Forum: General Discussions 04-13-2010, 10:55 PM
Replies: 223
Views: 37,915
Posted By WarnerYoung
And as I mentioned in an earlier post, at least...

And as I mentioned in an earlier post, at least one major publisher I talked to last year admitted they have one, and only one, man who handles all their ebooks. The implication (though I'll admit...
Forum: General Discussions 04-12-2010, 06:48 PM
Replies: 223
Views: 37,915
Posted By WarnerYoung
But Solitaire1 does have a point. Precisely...

But Solitaire1 does have a point. Precisely because computers can't always spot errors, you probably DO need a human involved somewhere in the process. For cases where the book is already in an...
Forum: General Discussions 04-09-2010, 09:38 PM
Replies: 223
Views: 37,915
Posted By WarnerYoung
Part of the reason for these typos is that, until...

Part of the reason for these typos is that, until recently (I would guess), many publishers didn't put that much effort into it. I talked to someone from one of the publishers at San Diego ComicCon...
Forum: General Discussions 04-09-2010, 09:32 PM
Replies: 223
Views: 37,915
Posted By WarnerYoung
I'm not sure that's strictly true. It depends on...

I'm not sure that's strictly true. It depends on how the PDF file was generated. Otherwise, a standard PDF reader wouldn't be able to let you select and copy its text, or search through the text in...
Forum: General Discussions 04-08-2010, 06:43 PM
Replies: 223
Views: 37,915
Posted By WarnerYoung
It depends on the ebook, too, of course. If the...

It depends on the ebook, too, of course. If the errors are minor (e.g. a few missing periods, maybe an extra space somewhere), you're not as likely to notice them.

When the errors are literally...
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