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ChristopherTD · 02-23-2010, 05:19 AM

Why not take the Reader in to a Waterstones store and show them the book in all its deficient glory and ask for help?

I bought half a dozen Ian Rankin books from Fictionwise about 4 years ago and they were full of the most atrocious OCR errors. The result of me reporting this was that the titles simply vanished from the store. They have never re-appeared. Basic formatting and OCR errors are the plague of ebooks, and corrections rarely appear (though the Hobbit was updated after being released last year with a slew of errors)

02-23-2010, 05:19 AM	#23
ChristopherTD Addict Posts: 343 Karma: 1010002 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: London. UK Device: Marvin Reader on iPad Air (via Calibre)	Why not take the Reader in to a Waterstones store and show them the book in all its deficient glory and ask for help? I bought half a dozen Ian Rankin books from Fictionwise about 4 years ago and they were full of the most atrocious OCR errors. The result of me reporting this was that the titles simply vanished from the store. They have never re-appeared. Basic formatting and OCR errors are the plague of ebooks, and corrections rarely appear (though the Hobbit was updated after being released last year with a slew of errors)