Thread: Searching for corrupted epubs?
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Old 09-25-2014, 06:02 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by ardeur View Post
I have about 5000 epub books and I've begun to notice that a few of them are "corrupted" (all weird characters, partial words) when I put them on my Nook and open them. I'm pretty sure it was a bad file that I downloaded from gutenberg or another place.

Is there a feature in Calibre that can search for messed up files like these so I can delete them?
A 'Corrupt' EPUB would not work at all (it is a Zip) the CRC would fail..

Bad OCR or Wrong Character encoding.

Neither is normal PG completed book fare.
Are you sure you did not get a 'Proofing Project' file?
(but aren't they normally given out as partials?)

PG books all have a PG Scan notes page up front.
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