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Old 03-20-2009, 04:38 AM   #111
Jill75
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Originally Posted by frabjous View Post
All right, I know these are free, and no one has any right to complain, but you'd think someone would at least scroll through these (even without reading them to correct OCR errors) to catch glaring errors.

These screenshots is from their ePub version of Bertrand Russell's Our Knowledge of the External World (1914). One shows the edge of one page, where random marginalia from the pbook is displayed as an image. The other shows fingertips of whoever scanned the book.



Crazy.
Yeah this is crazy. Reading through the book enjoying it and all of a sudden, you see this? I just wonder if they have quality control before loading the books?

But you cant deny that technology has really gone so far in making books available to many all over the world.
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