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01-28-2011, 06:51 PM | #48 | |
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This is not retail (or if it is, its been tampered with). Retail text is always justified and here you can clearly see the text is not. A typical example of a lower quality copy compared to the actual purchased copy.
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I suppose I don't know for sure. I was going buy a website that listed the number of ebooks available through each site listed. I chose the two highest. I can't say for sure the information was correct.
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01-28-2011, 07:00 PM | #50 |
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Just curious - what are the differences besides the obvious spellings of things like colour, etc? Oh, and I think I heard Titles are different?
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01-28-2011, 07:11 PM | #51 |
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01-28-2011, 07:16 PM | #53 |
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The version I have found is justified but I wonder how many ebook readers really care about that?
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01-28-2011, 07:16 PM | #54 | ||
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I have bought sf/f books from waterstones [or was it the other brit store? whichever one would sell regardless of geo-restrict until several months ago] and I gave up. The "Malazan Book of the Fallen" series by Steven Erickson. Your vaunted "retail" version had over 125 errors. I know, because I counted them, noted them and then wrote back to the store demanding better copies. Then I went to the "devil" site and found lovingly crafted books, by fans, that were completely error free. Saying it is "retail" means jack. You'd know that if you bought a wide variety of ebooks on a regular basis. Quote:
Please do more buying so you know what you are talking about. ps. after reading my post, I realized I came across as an angry old man. I'm not. Just annoyed that you are spouting such statements with no experience or knowledge to back them up. Last edited by Ravensknight; 01-28-2011 at 07:21 PM. |
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01-28-2011, 07:25 PM | #55 | |
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I have indeed never read on a 505, I only have the 650 ...
and no need to be so crusty. I would never say you are full of it because, say you buy books on a regular basis and I don't. You can't hold that against someone. As for the imperfect retails, that is another issue which is probably worse than poor quality pirated books. One would expect actual retails to be proof-read etc. Though from what I hear from some posts here, the latest releases are generally better. I can only hope it is so. Quote:
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01-28-2011, 07:50 PM | #56 |
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I will hold that against someone [you in this case] since you are making statements about things that you have no knowledge of or experience with.
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01-28-2011, 07:50 PM | #57 |
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what I found out (searching for books I already own in paper) was that i was able to get epubized copies made of said books in qualities from acceptable (text clean, only some images, like maps, commonly found in fantasy books could need rejustification) up to superb. what spares me a lot of scanning
A point worth to think about is that i am referring to books of which in most cases (5 out of 6 series) no official epubs exist (yet) the series in question are german translations of english with 1 exception where the whole series is in Polish (originally) and PDF. in one of this cases I can even report the following:
in another case, where I know the whole series exist as official epubs the darknet copies are (due to covers used and the look of graphics used inside look rather like good scans than original sources) made of the paper editions. The conclusions are:
for me it proves that it's availability in general as well as DRM what matters. therefor, the longer publishers hesitate offering (preferably DRM-less) epubs the more people will help themselves. there seems to be a lot of people like me out there thinking: "If they 'd be willing to sell me clean digital copies I 'd happily sell my pbooks and reinvest the money in such ones. Since they don't I keep the paper for legal reasons and help myself to a digital copy that I don't need to illegally uncripple" |
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How many ebooks does it require to have "knowledge" in this matter according to you ?
While you may have more than me, let me inform you that I actually have 45 ebooks in my reader. Thus making your statement that I have NO knowledge or experience, incorrect. See how easy one gets carried away when expressing ourselves ? So again don't hold it against me, not if you are sensible. Thanks. |
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01-28-2011, 08:13 PM | #60 | |
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Recently this has been in my mind a lot, as I've also been searching high and low for ebooks in British English, with no success. Partly my insistence on BE is due to my desire of matching ebook versions with their pbook copies, but also because the British English editions are the ones with which I grew up, and I appreciate their local flavour. (Damnit Bloomsbury, release a BE edition already, I want searchable, digital copies! ) Generally speaking, although a lot of ebooks to be found in torrents are of poor quality, there are easily 'retail quality' ebooks if one knows where to look. The torrent scene also has release groups that tend to pride themselves on uploading quality copies. Then less commonly there are ebook copies, usually of books in which no commercial ebooks are available, which are lovingly crafted by fans and quite frankly, look superb. The American English editions of Harry Potter available on various torrents are a good example. |
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