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Originally Posted by tdonline
What if I downloaded the PDFs and used Calibre to turn them into ePubs?
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You might as well use the epubs provided by Open Library / Internet Archive. I don't think Calibre will be able to convert the pdfs to epubs, since they are strictly image files, no true text pdfs. But even if Calibre should manage such a conversion, you would have an epub not essentially better than what the Internet Archive provides.
If the epub provided is very very bad, you can try downloading the jp2 images of the scan (they are higher resolution than the pdf) and run them through ABBYY or some other OCR program.
But whatever you do, you will end up with an epub that needs manual cleaning up and proofreading. There's no shortcut for that.
ETA: And after you have produced a nice, clean epub of your book, you might as well upload it to the MR Library (if it is in the public domain).
