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elcreative · 10-13-2011, 10:30 PM

Wondered if you'd dig them up... a whole dollar - then you find that's just for the first 100 pages then there's another fee, and another and... oh, yes try loading the resulting so-called pdf in an ereader and see how it chokes on the individual page sizes - putting a bunch of jpgs into a pdf file doesn't make a readable txt-based file for ereading... and for most people it isn't something other than a waste of space... so now you OCR it and then you have to proof it, but that's easy, anyone can do it, right... wrong, proofing is a time consuming and skilled task...

Still, all that's a load of old rubbish, anyone can do a scan and OCR and proof, see the pirate web... well, a few people have done superb jobs purely out of love for a work and more have done an OK job just to get the book in ereadable format but that's fine if you don't mind the errors, and there's a lot more that have just been OCR'd and are full of errors that then interfere with your reading but, hey who cares because that proves it doesn't cost anything... and who needs to worry about the fact that most publishers do not have separately delineated rights to e-formats of books...

And anyone who hangs round here knows of one author who grabbed a pirate scan of one of his books... and they also know that he used that as the basis of producing it in e-format, not just copying it for use...

But you know better than all the publishers, authors and editors...

10-13-2011, 10:30 PM	#5
elcreative Wizard Posts: 2,888 Karma: 5875940 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: PRS505, 600, 350, 650, Nexus 7, Note III, iPad 4 etc	Wondered if you'd dig them up... a whole dollar - then you find that's just for the first 100 pages then there's another fee, and another and... oh, yes try loading the resulting so-called pdf in an ereader and see how it chokes on the individual page sizes - putting a bunch of jpgs into a pdf file doesn't make a readable txt-based file for ereading... and for most people it isn't something other than a waste of space... so now you OCR it and then you have to proof it, but that's easy, anyone can do it, right... wrong, proofing is a time consuming and skilled task... Still, all that's a load of old rubbish, anyone can do a scan and OCR and proof, see the pirate web... well, a few people have done superb jobs purely out of love for a work and more have done an OK job just to get the book in ereadable format but that's fine if you don't mind the errors, and there's a lot more that have just been OCR'd and are full of errors that then interfere with your reading but, hey who cares because that proves it doesn't cost anything... and who needs to worry about the fact that most publishers do not have separately delineated rights to e-formats of books... And anyone who hangs round here knows of one author who grabbed a pirate scan of one of his books... and they also know that he used that as the basis of producing it in e-format, not just copying it for use... But you know better than all the publishers, authors and editors...