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Purple Lady · 08-04-2017, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

This is one hell of a crappy eBook. I downloaded the ePub and found it to be really bad. The ePub is made up of one HTML file that's 1.6mb. There is no CSS. In the spoiler is a sample of the typical coding in the HTML. I don't know if I've ever seen any eBook as badly coded as this one.

Spoiler:

He gives Sylvia a handicap of only two. She is a delicate woman, fine-boned and shy. Genetic surgery is her specialty. Sylvia plays the game well, although slowly. She makes her move. At the sound of it Roy opens his eyes. He studies the board the merest fraction of a second, points, and says, “Atari,” the conventional way of calling to his opponent’s attention the fact that her move will enable him to capture several of her stones. Sylvia laughs lightly and retracts her move. After a moment she moves again. Roy nods and picks up a white stone, which he holds for nearly a minute, hefting it between the two playing fingers as though testing its weight, before he places it. Which is not at all typical of him: ordinarily he makes his moves with intimidating speed. Perhaps he is tired this morning. Or perhaps he is simply being kind.

Thanks for the warning - this is exactly what I wanted to find out.