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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
You lost me on this one...what is this feature used for?
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It is used to make corrections to the text of a book. I use it mostly for books which were scanned and not checked for OCR errors, like number 1 for letter l, no space between words where there should be, etc. (Harlequin Treasury I am looking at you!)
But I also use it to fix numerous older digital books where the About the Author stuff starts immediately below the last line of the book rather than on a separate page, the chapters are not separated, and situations where a book is just poorly formatted.
Also, as an example in two of Julie James' books to take out the Hyperlinks within the books' text (why Berkley thinks a link to the TMZ website is necessary in the paragrah(s) where the characters are talking about it is beyond me

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Or to fix simple formatting issues where the section breaks are missing or a paragraph break is erroneously placed mid-sentence and things like that.
It's also very convenient when converting PDFs to remove the header and footer information on each page. Though in my experience I usally convert PDFs to RFT and go in and fix all the paragraphs. The lack of good conversion is the main reason I no longer buy PDF format, but many of my first digital books are in that format. Some I just repurchased, but others are no longer available to buy so I had to convert them.