Thread: DRM on e-books? Five possibly good reasons to crack it
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Old 09-29-2013, 06:53 AM   #64
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
OCR problems have nothing whatsoever to do with DRM. Most modern eBooks are pretty good - it tends to be backlist books that have OCR issues.
OCR issues are seldom a problem with relatively recent books; most publishers have the manuscript in digital version. What is a problem is formatting, there is a lot of atrocious formatting in commercial epubs. Unless you remove DRM you can't do anything about it, without DRM it is usually a simple matter of removing CSS definitions. Unless I remove the 175% line height, 0.9in indents and 1.5in margins (all observed by me personally in books I've bought) the epub is practically useless for me.

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