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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Can you define in concrete terms what counts as 'reasonable quality' in order to 'meet minimal expectations'?
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That's a rhetorical question. You already know the answer is no. It is the overall "feel" of the book that determines one's opinion of the quality. I know, at least for me, that several errors
per page is too many to be considered reasonable. Now, not every page had errors in the book I initially described in my post. Probably, most pages did not have errors. But then, there was a significant number of pages that had several errors on each one of them. They seemed to come in clusters - which makes no sense, I agree, but that's how it appeared. Even the definition of "a page" is not concrete in eBooks, given that we can adjust font size, margins, and all that.
You could also ask me to define, in concrete terms, how long a new tire should last on my car before disintegrating. I couldn't give you an exact timeframe for that either. But I could rightly comment that "one month is too short to be considered reasonable". That's what "reasonable" means ... it's subjective.