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Old 12-18-2010, 04:09 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by caleb72 View Post
Has anyone purchased an ebook from Amazon (or elsewhere) and noticed some problems with the text?

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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?
Regrettably so.

I suspect there wasn't an electronic form of Radix available, so as you guessed, a hardcopy was scanned, OCRed and converted. This is done for Amazon by an outsourced operation in India, and the results of the scan and OCR are what gets published as a Kindle edition. As far as I know, they do not copy edit or proofread to correct errors before packaging.
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