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Originally Posted by cmbs
I've seen some of your books on this website. Do you check them before posting? I've found footnotes with no links so the reader has no idea they're there. I've found links that go on for pages and pages. I've found tables that are spread out all over the place - neither formatted as tables nor formatted as readable text. Seems anyone taking care to do a good job and checking their work before posting would have caught and corrected these things.
And I don't have a secret agenda. It's only secret to those of you who read my comments looking for something that isn't there. You completely miss what I actually said.
If a reply is completely off point of what I said, yes I call it off point. This is also not complicated nor secret.
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You are right; there have been some problems over time with the Mobipocket books that have required that I change tools for their production. While this did extend the production workflow, the resultant volumes have met with favor.
Many people have cared enough about the books to send me PMs of the errors that they spotted in the books and these have been fixed. Since I have never received a PM from you or a post in the original thread, I can easily conclude that either you don’t really care about the books and are just throwing out generic problems that everyone faces from time-to-time in creating electronic books or you do care but feel that I don’t care about the books I produce (the “one piece of slop is as good as another piece of slop” theory.)
So it comes down to this, until today you never commented on the content, proofing, or formatting of anything I posted. Now today you have a laundry list of generic problems with one or more unnamed books that I posted at sometime over the past two years.I know where some of the problems are. I have requested in open forums for comments and corrections requests for the books I have posted. I have received comments from some (never you) and I have corrected the books in question. Currently I am still revising all of the Harvard Classics for a version 2 release. They will be finished when they are ready. Parts of the series represent some of my earliest work in creating LRF files for the Sony and the very first Mobipocket PRC and eBookwise IMP files. (And thanks to Nick IMP for the REB.)
So if you have any real issues with the books, please let me know rather than just sitting there and taking pot shots at book proofing and formatting in general.