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Originally Posted by rumplestiltskin
I guess I was being lazy; thinking that everything should be hunky-dory as it arrives when actually (now that I've taken a few minutes to examine my library since my last post), there are minor errors and omissions that a good librarian should not let stand.
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My poor nostrils. I rinsed them with coffee when I read your first sentence.
Pretty much anyone who has hung around MobileRead for a while has read the many comments on how most publishers seem to farm out ebook creation to interns or worse. I won't even get into the indie published books though many of them at least have fewer errors that epubcheck notices so they are well cooked crap.
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Originally Posted by rumplestiltskin
You've convinced me. I have the time and now have the inclination to do so. I'm retired so I have no excuse.  |
I edit most ebooks before reading them since I am very annoyed by weird line spacing, massive dropcaps, margins, etc. I've automated quite a bit of the process using a collection of saved searches in Sigil (an ePub editor). I haven't made much use of saved searches in the calibre e-book editor but it seems quite similar. I use both editors since they each have some features and capabilities the other lacks.