[Prestidigitweeze]

There should be a money-back guarantee for ebooks that prove to be spewed by publishers who scan or convert the originals without bothering to pay for proofreaders. The production costs of ebooks are nothing like those of printed tomes, so publishers can afford to ensure the content is accurate.

My bought e-copy of W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants began amputating the ends of words about halfway through. Having to stop reading felt like deprivation after a month of periodic immersion in plangent pasts.