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Originally Posted by murg
It wouldn't be hard to put an automated check in, and if the ebook text size changes by more than 5-10%, kick out a warning so a human can check it.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
That would require them thinking about that kind of case. Does anyone know if any other vendors, e.g. the sainted Amazon  have an automated-or-otherwise check for this nonsense?
It is rather difficult to predict everything that a crazy person might do. |
I think this would get way too many false positives. Many books clearly started out life as "save as HTML" code from Word and then run through some automated file muncher. Lately, I've seen a non-trivial number of those books updated with much smaller and cleaner code.