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Old 11-30-2010, 05:09 PM   #16
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I'm yet to read a Kindle book with 0 errors. It's kind of sad that the publishers don't bother reading it even once to check for erros.
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Old 12-01-2010, 12:19 AM   #17
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Some self-publishers don't even seem to care: I just deleted a (free) ebook that misspelled "computer" three different ways, in one place twice in the same paragraph!
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Old 12-01-2010, 12:50 AM   #18
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I would encourage anyone who returns a book because of bad formatting to submit a report to Lost Book Sales. This site will become more influential if people report books they're either not buying or have returned for any reason.
The interface is a bit annoying. You cannot always go back and have to start over. The site will tank if it's not fixed.
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Old 12-01-2010, 12:55 AM   #19
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It's not just scans/ocr that are a problem. A real problem can be the source. A lot of eBooks are made from a PDF source and as we know you cannot convert a novel length PDF without errors. I have never seen a way to do so. PDF is a terrible source. I've seen some books from PDF where all the iatalcs run into the text. You get incorrect words and even broken paragraphs. It's sad that publishers don't actually care. Books today are electronically created. So, there is an electronic source that is NOT PDF. So use that and deal. I know most authors use Word. But even the mess that Word makes with HTML can be fixed if you bother to do so.
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Why was this forum started in the Kindle section when it really belongs in the General forum/
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Old 12-01-2010, 01:03 AM   #21
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there's one PG uses that works pretty well called GutCheck http://gutcheck.sourceforge.net/
It can grab most of those stupid OCR errors, like the ii and arid, along with missing quotes and whatnot. OCR is good today, but still not quite 100% ... more like 99.8%
How very useful. Thanks very much for that link.
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It's not just scans/ocr that are a problem. A real problem can be the source. A lot of eBooks are made from a PDF source and as we know you cannot convert a novel length PDF without errors. I have never seen a way to do so. PDF is a terrible source. I've seen some books from PDF where all the iatalcs run into the text. You get incorrect words and even broken paragraphs. It's sad that publishers don't actually care. Books today are electronically created. So, there is an electronic source that is NOT PDF. So use that and deal. I know most authors use Word. But even the mess that Word makes with HTML can be fixed if you bother to do so.
I would suspect they use PDF because those will be the files they use for print and they are likely to be the most up to date versions. They probably don't even realise that PDF introduces its own errors in the ebook versions.
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The interface is a bit annoying. You cannot always go back and have to start over. The site will tank if it's not fixed.
I'm sure they'd welcome your feedback. I'm just a user of the site.
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