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Old 09-02-2009, 12:40 AM   #20
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Don't plan to read the epubs "as is"

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Originally Posted by mtravellerh View Post
Generally speaking, the Google books are not good quality at all. OCR'd scans that haven't been proofread mostly. A lot of doubles, too.
I just downloaded Google's epub version of the first attempt to complete Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Not only did the OCR errors jump off the screen at me immediately, but I discovered that the epub version is missing the entire last page of the story. I'm in the process of cleaning it up so that it's readable, but something tells me it would be easier (and less time-consuming) to retype it from scratch from the PDF.

It's nice to see Google branching out in the formats it offers, but the quality control part of the operation definitely needs some work.

Stephanie

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