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Originally Posted by phenomshel
Yeah, exactly. A purchased book that I'm reading right now has so many glaring OCR errors that it's painful to read. Not to mention, it's a LOT worse than the output I'm getting with these scripts. So I can definitely handle mixups with en dashes and em dashes.
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Make sure you submit a complaint to the publisher/distributor where you bought the book.
I have had numerous instances where there have been terrible OCR errors throughout the book. I have complained, submitted various screenshots of the errors, and demanded a corrected copy or a refund (e.g. open the ePub in ADE and take a few screen caps - I use ePub here because they seem to be the main culprits, as I don't recall so many badly formatted Mobi books). Naturally, a refund is always forthcoming (rather than a better copy - 'cos there aint one!). I also point out that if I bought a paper book with these kind of errors I would return it to the publisher immediately.
The only distributor so far who is dragging their feet is Waterstones (surprise, surprise) - but so far the others seem to be playing the game (Fictionwise, BooksOnBoard, Diesel, Penguin UK, WH Smith (UK)).
Seriously, this kind of shoddy product is just not on, especially given the still-inflated eBook prices of most places... we should be getting pristine eBook editions for those prices, but instead we're getting a lot of crappy scan-and-OCR versions full of typos and recognition errors. The only way to get these people in line is to exercise what limited consumer power we have, and return every purchased book that is not up to scratch for a refund... maybe then they'll get the message?
