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Originally Posted by moffattm
I've seen several people mention 'dodgy sources' on this forum being the cause of problems, but I'm not sure I see the connection between pirated ebooks and having problems with your e-reader.
EPUB's are basically just XHTML files. I can understand that a corrupted file or a poorly put together file may cause problems for the e-reader, just as a poorly put together HTML file can sometimes display fine in one browser but not in another. But even ebooks from legit sources can become corrupted, and we all know that even big publishers can skimp on testing their ebooks on various devices and create ebooks that are broken or that work on one device but have problems on another.
I don't think that 'dodgy sources' are any worse at creating good ebooks than legit sources. And I would imagine that 'dodgy sources' probably just make available for free the exact same files that legit sources are charging for. Or am I wrong in this assumption? Do they instead create the ebooks from scratch (which seems like a lot of work to me)??
And just to make it perfectly clear, I in no way condone pirating ebooks. While I may disagree with greedy publisher practices I think that authors should definitely earn a decent return on their hard work!
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when I say dodgy I mean books that you download from some torrent site that may have been in a different format initially and converted who knows how. I dont know if that is the source of some of the problems people are having but I do know that I have been beta testing since the first updates to the kobo touch and with the exception of the line cut of problem in the last release (now fixed for me) I did not run into anyof the problems that others have been reporing (edit I do get the double tap issue from time to time). but by and large my KT has worked very well with minimal issues and the issues that it has had have ben either fixed or are unobtrusive.
When I had the line cut off issue I only noticed it in some books?
I will also add that by 'dodgy' I really meant poor quality, poorly formated or potentially corrupted epubs irrespective of where they came from. I guess I am assuming that when you buy a book from kobo or amazon or whereever that the quality issues would be minimized but perhaps that is not a good assumption.