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Old 12-06-2010, 05:38 PM   #43
tomsem
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Originally Posted by AceTracer View Post
Yeah, you're missing the fact that Google Books has scanned versions of all its books. I much prefer reading the actual book as it was intended, instead of hampered flowing text versions (which is why I try to get PDF versions whenever I can).
They offer ePub or PDF downloads for all of the titles I've looked at so far. Seems like the best of both worlds.

I can't tell yet if the epub source is independently generated by them in all cases, or if they get this from publishers or a clearing house (at least for books available for purchase). I purchased a book and am comparing samples of others to try to figure that out. Haven't seen any scanning typos or formatting glitches, but it does look different than samples from, say, B&N (for example headings are left justified instead of centered).

And did I mention the web viewer works pretty well on K3?
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