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Well yes, and as I pointed out, better this than have them stuck somewhere mouldering away
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Of course, as long as those editions are in PD, and you are willing to put in the time and effort, you could either fix some of those yourself .
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Did, and offered the corrected file to them - they weren't interested.
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But I expect most PD readers don't particularly care about editions or even the quality of the translation. They just want free stuff, and most aren't fussy about the quality.
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Well, quite. And it matters little for many books. OTOH, it is an issue with some, and it would be good to have a definitive version available to check.
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No reflow, font will likely look like crap, if it isn't OCR'ed anyway you can't search. Having more fonts in ebooks would be handy, but it's not that important, and I for one don't need the illusion that I'm reading a paper book. I'll take legible over old-timey any day.
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Similar reflow and font problems can happen with epubs - I've had books with sentences split in two, massive gaps between paragraphs, and text apparently missing (the latter two can sometimes be resolved by changing font size, but not always). Searching is immaterial for me -I would just like to be able to check how the paragraphs etc
should look, whether there is any emphasis missing (got one book the other day where italics had been rendered by putting double quotes round the word/phrase
) and whether the well-meaning provider hasn't updated 'unacceptable' language. Unless someone's typed it, the book will have existed as an image file at some stage, therefore it shouldn't be that big a problem to provide the image file as well.