Thread: Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick Free ebook
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Old 07-07-2021, 05:38 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
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:
Phoenix Pick has the worst code I've ever seen. And you just proved it once more.
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