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Old 07-27-2009, 09:36 PM   #1
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Do you correct your ebooks?

Unless it's from here or a Fictionwise multiformat, I convert all my ebooks to HTML before bringing them into Calibre. Lately, there have been a few which had mistakes (mostly line breaks where there should be no line breaks). I am very tempted to correct these so I will have a 'clean' copy if I re-read the book. Does anybody do this? I suppose I can just bookmark the page and then go back into the HTML to fix it. Also, I guess I could just make a backup of the HTML file, leave it running on the computer and use the computer's search and replace to fix it. I just feel like if I do read it again, I want it nice-looking

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Old 07-27-2009, 09:38 PM   #2
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Unless it's from here or a Fictionwise multiformat, I convert all my ebooks to HTML before bringing them into Calibre. Lately, there have been a few which had mistakes (mostly line breaks where there should be no line breaks). I am very tempted to correct these so I will have a 'clean' copy if I re-read the book. Does anybody do this? I suppose I can just bookmark the page and then go back into the HTML to fix it. Also, I guess I could just make a backup of the HTML file, leave it running on the computer and use the computer's search and replace to fix it. I just feel like if I do read it again, I want it nice-looking

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Yes, all the time A lot of the books I've bought from Waterstones have no covers, and I like to have proper covers. So I strip DRM and bring them into Calibre for cover adding and any corrections I find as I'm reading (I have a little black book where I'll make a note if I find anything out of whack which I'll go back to in the html later and fix.)
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Old 07-27-2009, 11:32 PM   #3
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I do it all the time, too, exactly the way you described - I bookmark pages with errors as I read, then when I reach 20-30, I correct everything and continue reading.
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Old 07-28-2009, 12:20 AM   #4
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I do it all the time, too
As do I.

Besides the reasons others have provided, I find that many of my Mobi-format purchases have full justification hard-coded, not allowing me to switch to left-justified text in my reader (which I prefer with short line lengths). So I have to "fix" that.
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Old 07-28-2009, 01:14 AM   #5
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I used to, but I've been working so many extra hours at work...and I was spending too much time prettying up my books and not actually reading them!

So at the moment, no - not any more.
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Old 07-28-2009, 01:56 AM   #6
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Always. I'll correct while reading (touchscreen FTW!) When I'm done, I'll update the source, create a new book and from then on, I'll only use that copy.
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Old 07-28-2009, 11:52 AM   #7
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Old 07-28-2009, 12:42 PM   #8
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I do. I get most of my books from free sources such as Project Gutenberg, and frequently find OCR errors. Bugs me.
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Old 07-28-2009, 12:45 PM   #9
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Never. That's a lot of work! If it was something I could do easily, maybe, but I have too many other things I want to do with my computer time.
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Old 07-28-2009, 02:55 PM   #10
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I do. I get most of my books from free sources such as Project Gutenberg, and frequently find OCR errors. Bugs me.
I recently signed up with Distributed Proofreaders. If you're correcting errors in Project Gutenberg books, perhaps you'd consider helping to stop those errors from ever seeing the light of day.

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Old 07-28-2009, 03:15 PM   #11
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Old 07-28-2009, 03:42 PM   #12
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Old 07-28-2009, 03:44 PM   #13
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I find it very strange that people fix problem if they then cannot contribute the fixes back to people. I would never fix a book I bought to read it myself. If it was very broken I would return the book.

Not returning badly formatted DRMed books give the wrong signal to the seller.
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Old 07-28-2009, 03:47 PM   #14
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i do, all the time. covers, like moejoe, but also errors.
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Always. I'll correct while reading (touchscreen FTW!) When I'm done, I'll update the source, create a new book and from then on, I'll only use that copy.
ftw yes ! and that's exactly how i do it. with the eb1150 and the 700 i note the error when i see it, then from time to time i correct my original file, then reload it, and read the corrected one.
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I do. I get most of my books from free sources such as Project Gutenberg, and frequently find OCR errors. Bugs me.
me too.
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Old 07-28-2009, 06:10 PM   #15
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I correct them in my head. Does that count?
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