Thread: Growing library of free PD Google ebpus converted to MOBI
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Old 04-26-2010, 11:15 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by SensualPoet View Post
Nice idea ... but where the book already exists as a Gutenberg Edition you are MUCH better off to grab that. The Google Books are fine as they go -- and I am a strong supporter of the scanning project -- but the OCR that comes off them is not ready for prime time without some editing. Just creating an ePub directly doesn't cut it.
As far as I'm concerned Google books is useless for ereaders because of the optical character recognition.
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