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Originally Posted by Tarana
I'm one of those in the middle. I rarely add custom information, but I only edit books that I've scanned. The commercial books are having far fewer mistakes than in the past and not worth my time 'fixing.' Does anybody remember when LOTR first came out in ebook? Amazon gave me my money back, it was SO BAD!
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I haven't had this with Lord of the Rings, but I did with other books. A few years ago, I wanted to reread a series of books of which I had the paper version. It was available as an e-book, but not where I live; and at that time, I wasn't knowledgeable enough regarding e-books to know how to jump geo-restrictions.
Thus, I 'found' the books on the internet, only to discover that they were so terribly bad that they were nigh unreadable. They weren't even complete, missing maps and 'persona dramatis' lists that were in the paper version. I threw them away, assuming they were sloppily done OCR-versions, deciding to just wait for an official e-book release that I would be able to buy.
Now you can feel it coming, obviously. Some time later, the books became available at Feedbooks.com and Kobo; neither had the complete series, but between them, they had all the books. So, I bought all six (!) of them for full retail price (€7,99 a piece), all at once.
After un-DRM-ing and importing them into Calibre, I found they were exactly the same as the crap ones I 'found' earlier.
You can imagine my reaction. It was something like this:
It took me six days to fix those books, using maps and parts from the paper versions I still had.
Fortunately, I've never encountered books THAT bad since.