Thread: Do you care about how a book looks?
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Old 04-27-2010, 10:29 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by Marcy View Post
I can't read a poorly formatted book. I've gone to the darknet for books I already have in pbook that aren't available as ebooks, and it takes me an average of 3 days per book to format them back to the original, comparing every sentence to the pbook. I can understand OCR errors, but I have no clue why the paragraphing on many of these books is so atrocious.

For converting ereader books, you are much better off using the erdr2pml program as opposed to the erdr2html program. Calibre can then convert the resulting pml document to a perfect epub. I too found that converting ereader to html gave horrid output.

-Marcy
Marcy,

You're not alone! Ridiculous and majorly OCD as it sounds, I do exactly the same thing. I always use PDF, though, because I'm so ridiculous about this sort of thing that I can't stand epub as it currently stands.
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