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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Nowadays most of the pirated books are retail editions. The time of illegal OCR-d books is long past.
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I am currently reading Steven Erikson's
Malazan Book of the Fallen series on my Kobo ereader, and in the fifth book (
Midnight Tides), the conversion to epub was really horrible. The printed book (which I read some years ago) had visual separators when switching from one POV character to another inside a chapter; my epub had no such thing, making transitions pretty confusing. Also, the text had some typos that really looked like they had been caused by faulty OCR, like "AH" where the correct word was clearly "All".
This was with an epub I bought from the same source as I got the others in the series: the Kobo store. The first four books had no such problems (or at least none that I spotted); the sixth one, which I'm currently reading, doesn't seem to have then either.
Is there an easy way to see which company produced a given epub? I'd like to compare between the various books. If it was the same company, they had some serious quality control problems on this one book.