Thread: Sony Partners With Google To Bring More Than 500,000 Books To The Reader
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Old 03-20-2009, 10:49 AM   #118
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Originally Posted by aleks View Post
I have noticed that several readers are complaining about the quality of the downloads. All I can say is that with 500,000 books out there maybe each of the complaining readers will volunteer to edit the OCRed documents. Be thankful for what we have gotten so far.
I have no problem with anyone complaining about them -- it is not a reader's job to assist Google or Sony. These organizations are using the books for their own commercial goals (which is fine by me) and should use their own resources to do things correctly. Quality is just as important as quantity, IMHO.

I do have a problem with someone complaining about errors in a Project Gutenberg document without attempting to fix/improve it themselves for freely sharing with others.
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