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And who would scan a book with OCR to turn it into a eBook when most likely they would also have access to the original text used to create the printed book?
IF they indeed used OCR to create the eBook, that would explain the errors. Then the question might become, who in the world would want to use OCR in the first place? Maybe I could see that if this was some pirated eBook where the original source was not available. But unless my library is buying pirated eBooks and putting them up via Overdrive, I have a hard time comprehending why this would be an OCR-created eBook.
But my question really was, "Is there anyone else that these errors bother?" Regardless of how they got there - be it OCR or something else. The cause of the errors was just an aside. OCR may explain the errors, as I hinted in my initial post, but it does not make them more palatable. At least not for me. I was asking if it bothered others as well.
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