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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
I noticed that a lot (I probably could almost safely say 100%) of ePubs from archive, in the last say 2-3 years, appear to block the ADE and give various errors in Calibre 4.xx I use.
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Can you link to some that are broken?
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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
I spend some hours reading the various complains about archive, it appeared that many are discontent with the PDFs
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??? First I'm hearing about this. What's the problems with their PDFs?
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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
but the bad quality (incompatibility) of ePubs have not been raised that often (there is one single thread about it, here).
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Because the EPUBs (and MOBI, TXT, [...]) are auto-converted by OCR based on the PDF scans.
You'd get better and more accurate results by download the PDFs and running your own OCR.
I wrote about some of that here:
"Optimize PDFs from archive.org for E-Ink devices"
and just last month:
"Tutorial-from Paper Book to Ebook PDF - 400 pages in 4 hours"
I wouldn't touch Archive.org "EPUBs" with a ten foot pole though. To call those actual EPUBs is a travesty.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Also they don't care about copyright. Likely that's why you have a problem.
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What? This is complete hogwash.