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Old 08-28-2009, 07:32 AM   #5
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Thank you for the book.

Here is my first feedback.
Please understand, I do not want to look the gift horse into the mouth, I just want to help to improve the book, just as I have been asked ;-)

1. You have no metadata in the epub file. It means that when you import the file into the Sony Library, Calibre software or any reading device the title is "unknown", author is "unknown"

2. the format of the book is a mess.
2.a there are page numbers left in the text, like this
Quote:
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greeted with
2.b The paragraphs are run together
2.c The xhtml files that are inside epub archive contain utf8 characters for curly quotes, emdashes, ellipsis ... . Curly quotes and other fancy characters should be represented by Character entity references
Point 2 complaint have been most probably caused by use of wrong tool for conversion or choosing wrong input format for conversion.

3. You have not provided more formats

I have made a conversion for my own use, so I can read the book (and provide further comments if you wish) because free book is free book and I have to reformat most of my reading material anyway. But few people have the time, the means, the expertise and the inclination to reformat a book that is not immediately readable on their device.
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