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Old 03-22-2014, 09:19 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
I do book conversion professionally, and mostly work with non-fiction economics books (lots of footnotes). Other types of books might be eaiser/faster, but If I want to do completely proof a book and get a completed/finalized EPUB out of it, it takes me ~8-15 hours of work (although when I first started it used to take me ~2 weeks to convert a book).
I find it difficult to believe that you can "completely proof" a book in 8-15h. "Completely proof" to me means comparing the ebook to the original source material comma by comma, letter by letter, word by word, line by line. I've been proof-reading books for many years and can't manage more than 10 pages an hour, or some 40h for a 400 page book.
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