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Old 06-12-2007, 08:17 AM   #20
Hadrien
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Originally Posted by rlauzon View Post
FeedBooks seems to only offer eBooks in PDF form (according to the quick check I did), making the service worthless.

I can understand offering eBooks in ready-to-go formats for those who don't want to be bothered to do their own conversion, but the original source should [B]always[B] be offered as well.
I don't think that all of our registered users consider Feedbooks worthless, hopefully. PDF is what we selected for the beta, since it's the only good way to keep nice typesetting in an e-book for the moment.
What you call original source is actually quite different on Feedbooks: the source is not a file but in multiple tables in a database, divided into elements that are not presentation tags but parts/chapters/sections.
And some of the presentation tags are book specific too like footnotes for example.
Oh and unlike many websites, the source is always included both on the website and in the book, so you can easily find who scanned, did the proof reading etc...

Based on your opinion, I guess that you also consider the LRF uploads worthless, since on the forum, people usually upload the LRF only ?

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