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omk3 · 01-21-2010, 10:30 AM

Hello Mark and welcome to Mobileread.

I had a similar problem with another book I bought from Waterstones - the Â character kept appearing (usually at the top of the page), which wouldn't bother me that much if the book didn't have a lot of other, more serious problems as well, like every french word in there being just garbled random letters.

I'm pretty sure the Â character is not a problem at your end - ebooks should be designed so that they can be correctly read by anyone, end of story.

I'm very surprised you got your money back, because I am now in my third week of correspondence with them about my book and have not received a useful response yet...

01-21-2010, 10:30 AM	#2
omk3 Wizard Posts: 1,454 Karma: 37243 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Europe Device: pocketbook 360, kindle 4	Hello Mark and welcome to Mobileread. I had a similar problem with another book I bought from Waterstones - the Â character kept appearing (usually at the top of the page), which wouldn't bother me that much if the book didn't have a lot of other, more serious problems as well, like every french word in there being just garbled random letters. I'm pretty sure the Â character is not a problem at your end - ebooks should be designed so that they can be correctly read by anyone, end of story. I'm very surprised you got your money back, because I am now in my third week of correspondence with them about my book and have not received a useful response yet...