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Old 07-26-2011, 07:04 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by Hellmark View Post
Also, consider the quality of the books. Most of the google ones look like crap. Most of the ones I've seen, the text from the OCR is often incomprehensible, and the layout and formatting is atrocious. That kinda leaves the images from the PDF version, which do not scale well.
Can't agree more with you. I stopped downloading public domain eBooks from Google after trying to read one I'd put on my device. Typos and invalid characters everywhere.

Luckily I found MobileRead and a bunch of great people dedicated to correcting such sloppiness!
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