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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Well, if the reader read ePub and used Calibre and stripped DRm, then the answer is that fixing the eBooks would be trivial.
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Yes...ish. One, I just wanted to point out (tongue-in-cheek?) that this is really inviting people to break the DRM. Never said it was "hard" to do so, just - well, I don't want to go there.
Second, I guess it would depend on how errors are reported.
If it's just one error, it would be trivial indeed to fix.
But if there are pages upon pages of mistakes (LOTR anyone?), it will become a real pain.
Unless people post working regular expressions to fix the errors automatically?
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
PAR files?
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OK, this is a really intriguing idea. Are you saying that we could fix an ebook, generate a PAR file based on the difference to the original file and upload that small file here to merge into somebody else's book? That would be awesome!
But wouldn't that require the ebooks to be *exactly* identical? So the PAR file would be tied to a particular vendor - and even then, wouldn't the included DRM prevent it?
(I don't know much about Parchives, just the general concept.)