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Originally Posted by isarl
Just to add a data point here, when I am inside Canada and purchasing from Kobo's Canadian store, they bill me based on the address on my user profile. Not based on my billing address for whatever credit card I use. This is not exactly the same as using an entirely different country's Kobo store, but I thought it would be interesting to know.
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I don't know how, but some stores seem to work just fine even without the correct address for your credit card. Last year Google changed my Japanese account to a US one, so I had to go through a process to make it Japanese again. As part of that I added a Japanese address. Despite that being the
only address on file, it charges my US credit card without problems.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
"Putting together this bundle was an exercise in misery. I didn't have access to enter the books I really love, so enjoy these, the best of a bad lot."
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"I was drunk when I agreed to put this bundle together and hated every minute of it. I picked only the worst books I could find so readers will suffer, too."
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Piers Anthony is a writer that was wildly popular previously, but seems to have just vanished from the public consciousness.
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Around a decade ago people started noticing Anthony had some truly disgusting themes in his books: misogyny, rape, pedophilia, etc. That stuff's definitely in his books and people calling attention to it severely damaged Anthony's reputation. No doubt that's a part of why his books aren't talked about much now, and why they aren't widely available.
Basically society changed, decided some of the things in Anthony's books were unacceptable and moved on from him.
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Originally Posted by isarl
However, it seems to simply use a separate JPG for each page. This wouldn't bother me quite so much except it also does it for the two-page spreads, so I'm toying with the idea of stitching those two-part images together myself and replacing the references in the ebook. Just a bit leery of messing something up, I suppose. Any cautions or words of encouragement from more experienced readers who are also picky about this sort of thing? I guess I can always just make a copy of the original EPUB so that if I mess up I can go back to the original version.
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As long as you have a backup of the original, you can't screw things up unrecoverably.
