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Originally Posted by Julius Caesar
If the conversion from printed book to ebook is 100% perfect, then I wouldn't even bother with the DRM. But it's far from perfect. OCR sucks. Typo here, typo there. Format oddities over here and there.
Just read Amazon customer's reviews complaining about typo and format oddities. They are everywhere.
As a side note, here's real life examples how DRM screwed consumers  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital...t#Obsolescence. |
This. Often there is stuff I want to fix in retail books. For some reason, some publishers do weird things like putting half a line of whitespace between paragraphs. In addition, they also sometimes omit justification. It makes the pages very unbalanced to read, especially so if these two are combined.
The two most used fixed here are removing margins and adding justification. Just adding an extra CSS p-tag in Calibre is not the solution, because often there are paragraphs you DON'T want changed. Mostly it's only the ones that make up body text, often called "noindent" for the first, and "indent" for the rest of them.
Then there is of course conversion from one device to another, and being able to shop at different stores. If DRM could not be removed so easily, I would never ever buy one single ebook. Then for me, e-reading would be for classics only.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
OCR problems have nothing whatsoever to do with DRM.
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Sure it does, and you know it. The poster obviously means that s/he can fix a non-DRM'd book, where it is impossible to fix one that does have DRM.
edit: oh, I'm slow. Note to self: read thread first.