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Originally Posted by Anarel
I know that there some limitations, but for the basics, like the way paragraphs are laid out, aren't that complicated. And when they can't even get that right....
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If it's a Kindle edition, and created in response to enough people clicking the "I'd like to read this book in a Kindle edition" button, it's no surprise.
Many, if not most of those didn't have an electronic form to start with. Amazon makes them by having an outsourced operation scan and OCR a paper copy. The result is what they publish as a Kindle book. OCR is never perfect and errors will be present, but to my knowledge, editing and proofreading are
not done. They just feed the result to whatever program generates the Mobi files, and that's what they issue. (MobiPocket had a beta command line version of MobiPocket creator for Linux at one point, and I suspect that or a derivative called in a script does the book construction.)
The results are what you might expect: leaving a lot to be desired.
But in fairness, Amazon is not the only offender. I've heard screams of outrage about other vendor's works, where there is an electronic file to start with and less excuse for poor formatting. It is a problem, and will only really be addressed by lots of buyers saying "This is unacceprtable. I want my money back."
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Dennis