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Originally Posted by Logseman
What about Mobileread loading its own archive? The PD works here are VASTLY superior to what PG offers.
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To Amazon? I don't see that happening. The MR archives are a major reason for people to visit MR, and MR wants people to visit.
But yes, they are superior.
In some cases, they are from places other than PG, and are works that are not yet in PG's collection. In other cases, they are from PG, but painstakingly proofread and formatted for optimal display on the readers they are created for.
PG is now producing titles in ePub, Mobipocket, and other electronic formats, but those are scripted conversions, generated automatically from PG source texts in plain text of HTML format. The conversions are at the mercy of the source text, and in some cases, like texts created in the early days of PG before Distributed Proofreaders became the main feed, the source texts are in a shockingly poor state.
When a work exists in MR's library for whatever platform the user has, it's what I point people at as the likely best version available.
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Dennis