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Originally Posted by ficbot
I must be doing it wrong then, or else I am very stupid, because the few times I have explored (just out of curiosity) the alleged 'Darknet,' I have found errors in every book. It's just too much work to go through and proofread them all. I would rather just pay to get a proper copy. All those people who say they get perfect, beautiful copies of, say, the Harry Potter books, I have no idea where on earth they are getting them from because I have never seen them.
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Quite often I have too. That is NOT to say that I never find errors in retail versions - some of those releases have had disgustingly bad errors. As I'm getting the 'darknet' versions for free, I tend to cut them major amounts of slack, and if the book is one that I need to complete a collection, I'm quite willing to proof it out and reformat it to meet my favorite layout. If it's a one-off of a new author, I usually just live with the errors - if it is a 'darknet' copy. If it's one I spent money on, I get livid and report the problem right back to the retailer.
As for the HP ebooks, I can't imagine you've been looking too hard as I've found great versions in ePub, mobi and html!
Derek