Thread: ebook has words running together with no gaps between them likethis
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Old 01-04-2011, 06:29 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by DarkRoast View Post
The book I am currently reading seems to have a lot of words that run together without gaps where they should be. Thereare several sentences thatare displaying like this. I haven't noticed it in other ebooks. Just wondering, is this likely to be the fault of the publishers, the software or my reader or something else? I have a Sony PRS-650 and I had downloaded the book from A&R in Australia and used the Sony Library software. Any ideas?
The official Mobi converter does that when PDF is used as the source file, and so does Calibre. Lazy/ignorant publisher trying to use print-based files for ebooks.
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