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Old 12-14-2009, 04:22 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by omk3 View Post
I understand about the less than ideal formatting, but how can new typos appear during this conversion process? I have found some mistakes that seriously hint to ocr, like exclamations marks being transformed to one's or l's (!-1-l).
They are OCR errors. Any book that wasn't produced as an ebook at the same time as the pbook, was probably scanned & OCRd. Publishers don't keep the print-ready documents around after the book goes out of print.
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