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Originally Posted by Amalthia
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So basically, yeah I can see how "professional" novels would have not only typos but all sorts of formatting errors. I'm fixing shorter works but some of the fan fiction stories are novel length and at least I'm starting off with a clean electronic version.
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Very helpful information there, Amalthia! So it does prove again that conversion from one electronic format to another is not as simple as executing one command.
For the first few days I had my PRS-700, I wondered if I made the wrong purchase. I don't mean if I made a mistake in buy the particular model of PRS-700 but whether it was a mistake to have bought a ebook device at all. I was disappointed in the quality of the ebooks even those sold by professionals like Amazon. To me, reading a book isn't just about text but it's also the typesetting that needs to be pleasant, etc. If I wanted to read text with lots of mistake and look unprofessional, all I need to do is turn to some of my students' papers and look at what they've written. I don't need that in an ebook.
Anyhow, I eventually realised that it wasn't a bad decision to have purchased the PRS-700, especially since I have PDFs of academic journal articles (which by the way are all tip top shape regarding no spelling errors and so forth, and I've been printing academic journal PDFs for years now).