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It doesn't matter much now because they semi-recently removed the option to ADE-download (and thus sideload) most of their Open Library books, but it still affects the public-domain stuff. Last edited by ownedbycats; 11-06-2021 at 01:27 AM. |
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I've never tried one on my Kobo. They display well in my PC's Document Viewer. Sounds like the Kobo is displaying those blurry smudgy ones. |
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I seem to vaguely recall something about Internet Archive using some sort of proprietary compression tech, but I'm having a hard time trying to pull enough details from my memory to be able to actually find anything on it - it's possible I might've posted before about it so I'll look.
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My two questions are:
1. Why would any publisher/author think this enhances a book in any way? 2. Does any book reader actually find all capital letters in the first several words (or more) of a chapter pleasing? |
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For example, I think the white text on black background images are intended to be used as masks to apply to full page color or grayscale scans to aid in making pure white backgrounds. They also supply them for pages with line drawings, which makes cleaning up such images much easier. |
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This. It seems to be an obligatory comment in amazon books. Very occasionally the reviewer will give examples, but it is rare. I have frequently read said books, and noticed no typos. And yet the typo nazi can barely stand to read the book because of the horrible typos. What is going on in their brains?
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This is why i use a reading app that allows me to overide all publisher settings. Kills unwanted formatting dead!
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I tried using a freeware OCR program to convert some IA PDFs and saw exactly those smudges, though I don't see them when opening the PDFs on Edge.
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The silver lining is that they often are lazy about assembling it, so it's just the individual EPUBs (even with separate duplicated stylesheets, filenames, and front/back matter) merged together in the OPF plus some additional front/back matter, so it's easy enough to split them into the original individual books again.
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Other than that, the styling doesn't bother me too much unless they just use a whole lot of spans with IDs rather than proper classes and semantic tags since I often apply my own common stylesheet to all non-FXL fiction books I read. If I didn't do this, the worst would be when they have fractional em sizes on body text, overridden line spacing, NBSP-based alignment, or fake margins. |
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