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Old 04-04-2010, 10:14 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by ATimson View Post
Wow. That's... special. I could understand the problems with the quotes or dashes, if the book's doing something strange like requesting high-Unicode versions of those characters that aren't supported by your device (haven't looked at the source file for your book, naturally, so I don't know if that applies ).

But missing periods? That takes talent.
It was one of his first books, so had almost certainly been OCR'd. The strange thing was, though, that it wasn't just some of the quotation marks that were missing - it was every single one, and the same with the dashes and full stops. As you say, something had evidently gone very seriously wrong during the process of eBook creation.
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