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Originally Posted by Philippe D.
Now, I also have a problem when buying ebooks: it's very difficult to judge quality before purchase. I am not talking about the litterary qualities, but more about the quality of the ebook conversion. Non-functional tables of contents, chapter heads that don't link to the table of contents, this kind of thing. Whenever I pay a high price (which, for me, is roughly 80%+ of the paperback price) for an ebook and realize I got a low quality conversion, I tend to get mad.
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I'm not too worried about the quality of an e-book. Yes, bad formatting is annoying, but there are simply too many advantages to e-books (ability to change fonts and font-size, portability, no physical storage space needed etc. etc) to go back to paper. I usually fix the formatting myself, that's another thing you cannot do with paper books. I rarely bother with the table of contents, though. I don't use it much anyway while reading. If I need to look something up in a book, I use the search function (yet another point in favor of e-books, as you cannot search a paper book).