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Old 12-02-2012, 11:40 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by automa View Post
I think it is time consuming for people to add table of contents one by one. It would be a lot faster if a bot automatically generated the table of contents.

As well as the random spaces between words, there are so much of them it would be time consuming to delete those spaces.

Editing the spelling errors would be understandable because only humans can do that while the other two I mentioned probably can be automated via programming.

Also I think even PDF books that you download from Google Books and Archive are hard to read because they don't give you table of contents which probably can be easily made with programming instead of having the reader manually put in the table of contents.
You've just given a reason why there aren't ToCs and why there are errors - time consuming - the material on these sites is produced and uploaded for free, no charge from people using their own free time for the benefit of others and thus providing the basis for others to fine-tune/add ToCs etc using their free time... if you were paying for the content then sure, grounds for complaint but free and provided out of others' goodwill then if you want better then you provide it yourself from some of your time...
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