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Originally Posted by Catlady
People here have sometimes mentioned how they "correct" the e-books they buy--they "fix" the punctuation and the spelling to their liking. I find it extremely unsettling.
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There are some books I have downloaded from Smashwords where the text renders like this:
Shoul
d
she go to the store to buy some bread? Let me ask your mother if I can go to the comer (sic) store and I' l
phone you back.
sometimes in different font spans and header tags all in the same paragraph.
I'd find reading whole books like
that "unsettling." Some books, even bought ebooks have been made as such using OCR, and the rendering of the actual text has been abysmal. I've bought and borrowed e-books and read them along side the printed book and recommend anyone who wants a good laugh, to do the same. It's almost like reading that "funny autocorrect" website.
I borrowed "One for the money" in e-book format and read it at the same time as the printed book. there were 17 instances of the word "corner" being rendered as "comer", among other laughable unedited OCR.