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Originally Posted by ficbot
So, what do you think? If a book has iffy formatting, will you read ahead anyway? Or does it bother you enough that you'll go to lengths to fix it? Am I better just throwing in the towel on the iffy ones and reading them as plain old words?
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I convert over 99% of my books to ePub. All my books have at a minimum, proper sentences, spacing, paragraphs, paragraph indents, space between paragraphs, italics, OK margins and no junk headers or footers floating in the book.
I don't mind OCR errors, but I did have one book that the decryption left the occasional garbled few words. I read half way into it then went and bought a copy from Amazon. Removed the encryption with a newer script, reformatted the book the way I like (usually one pass through Calibre with my preferences does it) and picked up where I left off.
If the source is crap, I won't hesitate to toss it out and buy it from Amazon. I buy more books now then I ever did before I had a ereader.