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Old 02-11-2016, 09:26 PM   #66
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
In the Netherlands, libraries mostly have books in Dutch. If a title is not translated chances are small that they have it. If it's not recent, chances are slim to none. For older works in the public domain, they just link to Gutenberg. OK, Gutenberg has the text, but they hardly have what I would call proper ebooks (including front matter, etc....)
It is actually not difficult to make a nicely formatted ebook (epub or mobi) from a well edited Gutenberg text or html file. All it requires is a knowledge of HTML and a bit of time.
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