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Originally Posted by MachinegunDojo
I want to get eBooks that are high quality, if I am paying good money for something I don't want spelling errors or grammatical mistakes. I found a PDF of a book I was reading and tried finishing it in the PDF format on my phone after converting it from PDF to HTML and then to Word format. I noticed that on a couple occasions the text was way off the original. Checking the PDF I knew it wasn't from the conversion process I did but from something else. So with this I am worried that eBooks I pay for are likely to have mistakes like this or worse, someone could alter the eBook themselves and change it up a bit.
I'd like to buy from one store, I am unsure if Amazon or this Sony store I've heard of would have the same eBooks or how it works. Going with the last point I made I would assume that stores like these would have at least a lesser amount of errors by mistake or purposely.
One other thing came to mind just now, and that is censorship. Would stores censor titles?
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Legally-bought eBooks are generally of reasonably high-quality - certainly on a par with paper books. Scanned eBooks which criminals illegally upload to the internet can (and often are) of extremely poor quality.
If you want the widest range of options, I'd suggest going for a device which can read MobiPocket format books, such as the CyBook Gen3. Although slightly more expensive (about $50 more) than the Sony, it has numerous advantages such as dictionary support, the ability to load any font you wish on the machine, and view any book in any font at any size (the Sony restricts you to only three font sizes and doesn't let you change the font). Plus there's the fact that there are dozens of different bookstores selling Mobi-format books, and real price competition between them. With the Sony, you're stuck with one store.
Censorship? Why on Earth would anyone "censor" an eBook? For what purpose?