Quote:
Originally Posted by Katsunami
While I enjoy using my Kindle much more than my previous eReader, because it has a touch screen, and many more books are available, one pet peeve remains:
Many (most?) free eBooks are very badly formatted, even the ones I get from Amazon.
While I am not someone to often complain about free stuff, I can't help myself this time. Many eBooks contain spaces in places where they should not be, so the text starts
to look
like this
which is of course
not very
readable,
the cover image is very bad or missing, there often is no Table of Contents where there should have been one, or chapter headings look like normal text instead of being bold or larger.
This is true for books gotten from Gutenberg, Amazon, and to some extend, also for books (sorry to say so) from the MobileRead library, although the ones from MobileRead are often the best by far.
Sorry to complain, but I had to vent a moment there. I just hope that bought eBooks, especially the more expensive ones, will be better...
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The books from Project Gutenberg don't count. They are just run through a program to convert the text or HTML version of the book to other formats and this program does a very poor job. If you want Gutenberg books, look in the MR library. A lot are here and are well made and if your format is not here, there's usually a format that can be converted from.
As for the eBooks with the split lines, that's usually an indication that the publisher used a PDF file as the source for the other eBook formats.
A lot of eBooks don't have the proper cover and instead have a generic cover. As for the ToC, could be the ePub converted using Kindlegen and with no internal ToC in the ePub, no ToC in the Mobipocket. I've noticed that the poorly formatted headers is more often found in Mobipocket eBooks then ePub.