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There are not reviews of the *formatting* of ebooks, not in any coherent location.
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No, but the samples are likely to reveal formatting issues. After all, how likley is it that formatting errors will just happen to avoid the first chapter?
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Haven't you ever had a physically defective book?
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Once only. A paperback I bought at Costco that had pages w/o print. Oddly enough, this was just before I bought the Kindle and when I saw that the book was available on Kindle, I just got that instead of exchanging it at Costco.
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For example, if you are buying a technical book at a bricks store, you get to browse the entire contents of the book including the contents page and the index, in making your buying decision. This is critical to the selection process.
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True, but who buys technical books for the Kindle? Until a higher res device shows up that can handle graphics and color easily, this is a non-issue. I do agree that this could be an issue in the future, however.
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Ebooks should allow returns for
--bad formatting (missing punctuation, extra-wide margins, bad font/text size, OCR errors, lacks pictures included in paper version, Topaz, wrong metadata)
--file not usable with purchaser's software arrangement
--selected wrong filetype (for those that require 1 purchase per filetype)
--corrupt file
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Generally agree although I do think that formatting would have to be pretty bad to be unusable. Plus some of the above should be an exchange for same title, as opposed to a refund, assuming a functional file is available.