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Originally Posted by rstrube
Do you find that the overall quality of the ebooks from Kobo is good? It really frustrates me when you purchase a book for $10 only to find that it's riddled with OCR errors. I know Amazon has gotten much much better in regards to their ebook quality.
I'd love to support another company, as I think it's much better for consumers to have more than one company dominating the ebook market.
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For the most part, I've seen little difference in the quality of ebooks produced by major publishers regardless of where I purchased them. Self-published ebooks are iffier since quite a few are produced for Amazon first and then converted to epub without any manual cleanup -- often by an antique version of Calibre. Some of the "proofreading" is best described using a spellchecker without any common sense (one recent book kept using no for know -- You no how that goes...).
One ebook that I picked up from Google and a co-worker picked up from Amazon had the same typo in the first chapter. Menial instead of millennial -- enough to make me turn in my blue pencil.