On 9/21/2012 3:05 PM, James Adcock wrote:
Which avoids the issues we're seeing. Very few PG books have lots of textual errors that make readers not want to read the books. Many books have formatting errors that make readers not want to read the books. When I open a drama in my Kindle and it's unreadable, that's a more serious error then the few typos that most PG books have.
Just as a quick "sanity check" of these complaints that myself and others have been making, I chose "at random" to download and look on my ebook reader at ten books starting at catalog# 10000 to see if they are plausibly well-formatted or not. IE if I bought this e-book commercially would I be satisfied with this effort, or would I say "this is a load of junk." In the below list "yes" means "reasonably competent formatting" whereas "no" means the opposite:
10000 no 10001 no 10002 yes 10003 no 10004 no 10005 no 10006 no 10007 no 10008 no 10009 no Those are books from around 2003, James; still quite early (imho) as far as PG books go. Some of them didn't even have HTML created by the contributor, but were produced as plain text.
How about trying your experiment with more recent books? The current crop are up in the 40000+ range. It might also help to mention which ebook reader you're using, and which ebook format you downloaded. -- Walt