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I use the iLiad, not Sony, but I have had the same problem. I bought several Mobipocket books from mainstream e-book websites (Fictionwise, Mobipocket.com) and found the quality to be horrendous. The only explanation I could come up with was that they scan/OCR the books from a paper copy and don't proofread it at all.
One book, "The Sirens of Titan" by Kurt Vonnegut, had obvious and repeated errors throughout, including a lot of stuff that should have been picked up by a simple spell-checker.
The other book, "My Man Jeeves", by P.G. Wodehouse, was actually missing every single quotation mark throughout the entire book.
It turns out that "My Man Jeeves" is in the public domain, so I downloaded a copy from Project Gutenberg, and it was almost letter-perfect.
Needless to say, I haven't bought any commercial e-books for quite a while. I only read public-domain stuff now. If the publishing industry wants my money again, they'll have to publish e-books with the same quality as paper books.
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