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Originally Posted by jhempel24
Actually, what they would be getting is actual real, well formatted books, not OCR'd crap on torrent sites...which was why I said that.
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That's entirely possible, although I think it would be very inaccurate to assume that only "OCR'd crap" is available via the darknet or that the publishers' official releases are of a high quality standard.
Personally, the crappiest e-book I've ever experienced (which wasn't an obvious quickie homebrew assembled without sufficient love and care, much less skill) was the library's officially licensed ePub copy of
Driving With The Devil: Southern Moonshine Detroit Wheels And The Birth Of Nascar, product of the Crown Publishing Group, according to the Kobo listing which says it sells for 9.89 CAD.
You would not believe the crazy typos/scannos that littered the thing and were immediately obvious to anyone doing even a cursory skim of the chapter titles trying to figure out exactly what "Racing Car Plunjes into Thronj"* means.
But I have to admit, they did put in the footnotes correctly, which was a bit of a surprise, considering. And the curly quotes mostly faced the right way.
* Apparently this was a significant part of racing "H listory" in the "birthing j room", according to the highlights I took for posterity.