Thread: Who Really Owns Your E-Books? Switching from Kindle to Kobo
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Old 10-26-2024, 09:07 PM   #74
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
I'm not sure what you mean by quality of results? Removing the DRM from an ebook, as far as I know, had never caused a quality loss. If you are referring to the screen capture technique? One example I recently saw was taken from a 4K HD screen with the pages being 1600x 2133 pixels which is pretty decent resolution. Yes, this meant the image only ebook was rather massive at ~240MB but the OCRred version was about 900KB.
Even the highest resolution screen capture is far inferior to the original reflowable e-book format for text-based books. I would not settle for that myself.
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