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Old 07-07-2021, 05:20 PM   #19
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The latest email I received from Phoenix Pick / Arc Manor has Carolyn Ives Gilman's Halfway Human as a freebie.

While I enjoyed the book 20 years ago and couldn't resist picking the free ebook, the epub version needs some TLC. The entire book is stuffed into one file with no attempt at pretty printing, no stylesheet so inline style all over the place and such oddments as using multiple spans within a single word to make the work italic. See the sample below as a fine example of ugly printing:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" /><meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="Aspose.Words for .NET 6.6.0.0" /><title>Halfway Human</title></head><body><div><p style="font-size:14pt; line-height:120%; margin:0pt; orphans:0; text-align:center; widows:0"><img src="image.001.jpeg" width="444" height="665" alt="" style="border:none" /><br style="page-break-before:always; clear:both"/></p><p style="font-size:14pt; line-height:120%; margin:0pt; orphans:0; text-align:center; widows:0"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:serif; font-size:14pt; font-weight:bold">HALFWAY HUMAN</span></p><p style="font-size:14pt; line-height:120%; margin:0pt; orphans:0; text-align:center; widows:0"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:serif; font-size:14pt">Carolyn Ives Gilman</span></p><p style="font-size:14pt; line-height:120%; margin:0pt; orphans:0; text-align:center; widows:0"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:serif; font-size:14pt">*</span></p><p style="line-height:12pt; margin:0pt; text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:serif; font-size:12pt">Phoenix Pick</span></p><p style="font-size:12pt; line-height:120%; margin:0pt; orphans:0; text-align:center; widows:0"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:serif; font-size:12pt">An Imprint of Arc Manor</span></p><p style="font-size:12pt; line-height:120%; margin:0pt; orphans:0; text-align:center; widows:0"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:serif; font-size:12pt">*</span></p><p style="line-height:12pt; margin:0pt; orphans:0; text-align:center; widows:0"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:serif; font-size:12pt">**********************************</span></p><p style="line-height:12pt; margin:0pt; orphans:0; text-align:center; widows:0"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:serif; font-size:12pt">Want Free Ebooks?</span></p><p style="line-height:12pt; margin:0pt; orphans:0; text-align:center; widows:0"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:serif; font-size:12pt">Sign up for our Monthly Free Ebook Coupon </span></p><p style="line-height:12pt; margin:0pt; orphans:0; text-align:center; widows:0"><br/><span style="color:#000000; font-family:serif; font-size:12pt">http://www.PPickings.com</span></p><p style="line-height:12pt; margin:0pt; orphans:0; text-align:center; widows:0"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:serif; font-size:12pt">*</span></p><p style="line-height:12pt; margin:0pt; orphans:0; text-align:center; widows:0"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:serif; font-size:12pt">**********************************</span></p><p style="line-height:16pt; margin:0pt; text-align:center"><span style="font-family:serif; font-size:16pt; font-weight:bold">*</span></p><p style="line-height:9pt; margin:0pt; text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:serif; font-size:8pt; font-style:italic; font-weight:bold">Halfway Human</span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:serif; font-size:8pt; font-weight:bold"> copyright © 1998, 2010 Carolyn Ives Gilman.</span><span style="color:#000000; font-family:serif; font-size:8pt"> All rights reserved. This book may not be copied or reproduced, in whole or in part, by any means, electronic, mechanical or otherwise without written permission from the publisher except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. </span></p><p style="line-height:9pt; margin:0pt; text-align:justify"><span style="color:#000000; font-family:serif; font-size:8pt">*</span></p>
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