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Originally Posted by khalleron
The Epub might be 'totally unreadable', but the PDF is a photographic copy of that book. Any book Google scans begins as a photographic PDF.
I, personally, haven't found any 'totally unreadable' epubs on Google, but I've found lots on Internet Archive, to the degree that I don't even look there anymore.
A digital file can be backed up, copied and recopied without loss of data - a copy that exists anywhere can exist everywhere.
Would I destroy the last remaining copy of a book in order to make thousands of copies available anywhere to anyone?
Why, yes. Yes, I would.
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The PDF is also fairly much garbage. One of the things I loved the most about Hartmann was the illustrations by Fred T Jane (founder of Jane's Group, responsible for illustrations and information about military craft, especially naval and air), but they're either missing, or look like crap. They were scanned in as black and white only, with high contrast (to filter out marks in the paper, etc), which is great for text but horrible for anything else.