Errors in eBooks—find them here - Page 4

mr ploppy · 07-10-2012, 01:33 PM

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[*]define "error". Do you really want to track every OCR error?

Something that is wrong.

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Most importantly, what is then to be done with such a database?

Have every reader fix his own ebook? (which requires DRM circumvention

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PAR files? If there was a list of mistakes in a book I wanted to read I would just edit them myself. Unless there was thousands of them, then I'd probably just read something else instead.

JSWolf · 07-10-2012, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by MCSmarties

Have every reader fix his own ebook? (which requires DRM circumvention

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Well, if the reader read ePub and used Calibre and stripped DRM, then the answer is that fixing the eBooks would be trivial.

MCSmarties · 07-10-2012, 05:08 PM

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Well, if the reader read ePub and used Calibre and stripped DRm, then the answer is that fixing the eBooks would be trivial.

Yes...ish. One, I just wanted to point out (tongue-in-cheek?) that this is really inviting people to break the DRM. Never said it was "hard" to do so, just - well, I don't want to go there.

Second, I guess it would depend on how errors are reported.
If it's just one error, it would be trivial indeed to fix.
But if there are pages upon pages of mistakes (LOTR anyone?), it will become a real pain.
Unless people post working regular expressions to fix the errors automatically?

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Originally Posted by mr ploppy

PAR files?

OK, this is a really intriguing idea. Are you saying that we could fix an ebook, generate a PAR file based on the difference to the original file and upload that small file here to merge into somebody else's book? That would be awesome!

But wouldn't that require the ebooks to be *exactly* identical? So the PAR file would be tied to a particular vendor - and even then, wouldn't the included DRM prevent it?

(I don't know much about Parchives, just the general concept.)

JSWolf · 07-10-2012, 09:37 PM

For those who want a database, who is going to be the one to build it and where would it be hosted?

mr ploppy · 07-11-2012, 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by MCSmarties

But wouldn't that require the ebooks to be *exactly* identical? So the PAR file would be tied to a particular vendor - and even then, wouldn't the included DRM prevent it?

I'm not sure if it would or not, the vast majority of an ebook is in the text and cover images, those would be the same for each vendor. Everything else, including DRM, would be seen as a fault.

speakingtohe · 07-12-2012, 03:51 PM

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For those who want a database, who is going to be the one to build it and where would it be hosted?

Well this is your thread so you would be the logical choice, or did/do you have a better way of doing it? I know thatyou are really concerned on this topic, and seemed to be offering a solution, but I am unclear on what it was you were offering.

Wiki has been suggested as a host, which may or not be practical.

I admire you for even dreaming of taking on such a chore.

Helen

JSWolf · 07-16-2012, 04:01 PM

Here another list of errors. This one is fairly large. It's for Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters. This is from my 650. I've changed the page numbers to chapters to make it easier to find the errors.

JSWolf · 07-28-2012, 09:46 PM

Time for some surprising errors. Surprising because previous books in the Dresden series have had way more errors then this.

Error report for Death Masks by Jim Butcher

Chapter Five: Val-kyrie should not have the dash
Chapter Fifteen: Mc-Donald’s should not have the dash

That's all there is.

mr ploppy · 08-05-2012, 09:42 AM

James Herbert -- Domain

This is from a paperback I took on holiday, but I'd guess they will be in the ebook too if there is one.

p44: 2 men, one blind, one sighted, are walking down a dark tunnel. "They could see the emergency lights."

p51: "the girl seemed to realised what was happening."

p93: woman lights a cigarette with a match, but on the previous page she uses a cigarette lighter.

mr ploppy · 09-21-2012, 10:04 AM

Brian Keene — Alone

I wasn't going to include self-published books in this, even if the author wasn't interested in fixing the mistakes, but this was originally published by another company. They are all apostrophe related.

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mr ploppy · 09-21-2012, 10:08 AM

Remains of the Dead

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MrTeatime · 09-28-2012, 12:15 PM

The copy of "Perdido Street Station" I purchased from Kobo books has had, so far, about twenty chapters duplicated verbatim. The mind boggles.

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07-10-2012, 09:37 PM	#49
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 73,943 Karma: 128903250 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	For those who want a database, who is going to be the one to build it and where would it be hosted?

07-28-2012, 09:46 PM	#53
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 73,943 Karma: 128903250 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Time for some surprising errors. Surprising because previous books in the Dresden series have had way more errors then this. Error report for Death Masks by Jim Butcher Chapter Five: Val-kyrie should not have the dash Chapter Fifteen: Mc-Donald’s should not have the dash That's all there is.

08-05-2012, 09:42 AM	#54
mr ploppy Feral Underclass Posts: 3,622 Karma: 26821535 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Yorkshire, tha noz Device: 2nd hand paperback	James Herbert -- Domain This is from a paperback I took on holiday, but I'd guess they will be in the ebook too if there is one. p44: 2 men, one blind, one sighted, are walking down a dark tunnel. "They could see the emergency lights." p51: "the girl seemed to realised what was happening." p93: woman lights a cigarette with a match, but on the previous page she uses a cigarette lighter.

09-28-2012, 12:15 PM	#57
MrTeatime Connoisseur Posts: 61 Karma: 513276 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Sony PRS-350	The copy of "Perdido Street Station" I purchased from Kobo books has had, so far, about twenty chapters duplicated verbatim. The mind boggles.

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