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Originally Posted by Joques
Mgbino, another ebook mess is Stephen Donaldson's GAP series. Tons of OCR errors and also entire parts of the text that were simply missing.
I've learned enough basic formatting now that I can fairly quickly edit most offending books. With a few exceptions. Rothfuss' "The Name of the Wind" had for some reason lots of instances where the space between a period mark and the next capital letter was removed.
It would look like this: "... followed him inside.It was dark."
Lots and lots of instances. That was a lot more work to clean up than I was happy to put up with.
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That's a shame about Gap, because that's a great damn series. That's actually another one I was thinking of picking up again, but I might not bother now. I really wish I would held on to some of my old paperbacks.
A couple of the Deathgate Cycle books are pretty terrible. One of them (the third maybe) randomly replaces "I" with "/".
At this point, I've pretty much learned to read about crappy formatting. Typos and formatting errors used to drive me crazy, but I'm okay with almost anything at this point except missing text... that's unacceptable.