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Old 12-17-2010, 08:29 PM   #1
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Ebooks that are not quite right

Has anyone purchased an ebook from Amazon (or elsewhere) and noticed some problems with the text?

I'm reading Radix by Attanasio at the moment and I've been noticing things like:
  • 'y' is actually represented as 'v'
  • some words joined together
  • incorrect accents over letters
  • erroneous line breaks

I'm guessing that this must be due to a hard copy being scanned and the recognition software not quite getting it right.

So far, it hasn't really stopped me as it's always obvious what I'm supposed to be reading, but it did surprise me a bit coming from Amazon.

Is this sort of thing common?

Regards
Caleb
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