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Old 06-12-2012, 02:00 PM   #211
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I have so painstakingly corrected my version directly in the HTML files from the information in this thread that I dare not update it from any website lest some stuff I have corrected is again wrong.
Grab a new version and if the ISBN is different, check all the mentioned errors in this thread. All but one should be gone. If so, keep the new copy.
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Old 06-12-2012, 03:30 PM   #212
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It's not just that, its the formatting too. I have changed some formatting for instance indents, they are too far to the right for my taste ...
So I reduced them to suit my needs, as well as a few other formatting issues that I dealt with.

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Grab a new version and if the ISBN is different, check all the mentioned errors in this thread. All but one should be gone. If so, keep the new copy.
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Old 06-12-2012, 03:32 PM   #213
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It's not just that, its the formatting too. I have changed some formatting for instance indents, they are too far ahead ...
kind of like this so I reduced it. As well as a few other formatting issues that I dealt with.
Given that it is the same book with a different ISBN (most likely), there is a chance that the CSS from your old copy could be used in place of the CSS in the new copy.
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Old 06-12-2012, 03:39 PM   #214
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What is the ISBN number of your edition? I just looked and there is that one error. The other occurrences of the word are not hyphenated.
ISBN-13: 9780061952876
Pub. Date: April 20, 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Just seems to be that one instance of the word is locked down with a hard-coded hyphen.
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Old 06-12-2012, 03:51 PM   #215
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EPub Edition MARCH 2009 ISBN: 978-0-007-32259-6 <--unfixed
EPub Edition MARCH 2009 ISBN: 978-0-061-95287-6 <--fixed

That is odd that the ISBN would be different like that. Both are library copies.
They've swapped out the .lit for an eReader version, downloaded/freed it and...

EPub Edition MARCH 2009 ISBN: 978-0-007-32259-6

The unfixed version Checked through some of the errors listed in post 1, they're all present (the one's I checked anyway). So, no fixed ebook this way.

I'll have to fix it by alternative means
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Old 06-12-2012, 04:01 PM   #216
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Old 06-12-2012, 06:32 PM   #217
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I bought my copy some time back from WHSmiths and now that I Kobo has taken over from them in the UK as their ebook seller, I downloaded the copy that I now have available in my Kobo account (due to WHSmiths transfering my purchases over to them).

Lo and behold it appears to be the unfixed one. So it looks like Kobo this haven't changed it yet.

Bugger!
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Old 06-12-2012, 06:51 PM   #218
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I have so painstakingly corrected my version directly in the HTML files from the information in this thread that I dare not update it from any website lest some stuff I have corrected is again wrong.
You could do something like a diff between the two HTML files to find out what was fixed/lost with the latest version. You could probably even create a patch file from that and take out any of the changes that undo your own fixes, then apply the patch to your HTML files.

Basically, take your personally corrected version and merge it with the latest update, keeping all of your changes intact. Any sort of CM tool that deals with HTML files could probably automate a lot of that.
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Old 06-13-2012, 02:33 AM   #219
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I bought my copy some time back from WHSmiths and now that I Kobo has taken over from them in the UK as their ebook seller, I downloaded the copy that I now have available in my Kobo account (due to WHSmiths transfering my purchases over to them).

Lo and behold it appears to be the unfixed one. So it looks like Kobo this haven't changed it yet.

Bugger!
I'd suggest contacting Kobo CS and asking for the corrected version.
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Old 06-13-2012, 09:56 AM   #220
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I'd suggest contacting Kobo CS and asking for the corrected version.
Sounds like a plan. I hope they have a better copy, as I don't have much time to make the corrections myself.
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Old 06-13-2012, 10:51 AM   #221
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Lo and behold it appears to be the unfixed one. So it looks like Kobo this haven't changed it yet.
Might depend on which version (IIRC Kobo sells two different ominbus versions). My copy from Kobo (sold by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is the corrected version (minus the one hypen error mentioned above).
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Anyone know if the amazon version is fixed?
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Anyone know if the amazon version is fixed?
Yes, it is. That's where I bought mine from.
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If you originally bought The Lord of the Rings from Amazon in Mobi, do you get a KF8 if you download it now using the latest Kindle for Windows? If you do get a KF8, are the images as good as they are in the ePub edition?
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