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Old 02-02-2012, 08:11 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by DanBenton View Post
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Most likely this has come from the conversion process - I'd guess that half-lit breaks at the end of a line in the print version, and soft hyphens cause problems that are hard to pick up with automatic checks.
plausible - what source format would a publisher be starting from, when the book has been around for 10+ years as hardback/paperback before making it onto Kindle; do publishers have digital sources left over from the typesetting process or do they have to rescan & OCR their own books ?
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