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Originally Posted by hobnail
Yeah, I recently got one like that, a freebie on ereaderiq. They put a non-breaking space between p tags, between all paragraphs.
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WTF. It's like pressing ENTER ENTER ENTER in your documents.
And this is in trade published books?
Report it.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
(And WHAT is with trade pubbed books today coming in Kindle with block-style, space-between paragraphs, for novels? I mean, talk about STEAM!)
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... what? Are you serious?
I could
maybe see a self-help book, programming book, or something like that... but a novel‽
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I cannot stand that and I will go into the code and fix it. Good thing I know what I am doing so it doesn't take too long.
I would love a job reformatting commercial eBooks.
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Do it. Go to your favorite author, publisher, non-profit, etc... and clean it up for them.
There are
plenty of abysmal ebooks out there that need reformatting.
Heck, that's how I got started.
Side Note: I even used this method in 2018:
I purchased an ebook from one of the podcasters I listen to.
He only had an Amazon/Kindle version for sale, so I wanted to create an EPUB so it could be sold on all the other stores.
Turns out it was a Word->Kindle conversion... and there were busted footnotes, broken URLs, and other issues.
I blew him away by pointing out tons of errors/typos.
He gave me the original source files, and I was able to generate a super clean, amazing EPUB (and better Kindle version too!).
Now he's one of my best clients/buddies, and I've done 6+ books for them (with more on the way).
But note, you'd probably want to be less abrasive with your "my way or the highway" demeanor.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But not one like that Churchill eBook. Way too many footnotes to deal with.
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Meh. You know regex.
So once you spot the pattern, it's usually just a handful of regex to normalize the text.
I just reduce everything down to the super-clean:
then run my usual Saved Searches on it to instantly produce the footnote code.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
Buddy, you say that NOW. I know you and I think that your head would explode after your 4th-5th book. ;-) If you even made it that far.
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lol, but every book that's ever passed through JSWolf's clutches turns out perfectly crisp and clean!
In that entire Calibre library of his, there must be hundreds, thousands, millions! He's outproduced us all!
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Originally Posted by Hitch
It seems like a perfect gig for a perfectionist...but, hell, ask Tex, the biggest perfectionist I know. He'll tell you and you KNOW he has mad formatting skills. Trust me.
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