24 Sep
2012
24 Sep
'12
6 p.m.
In the vast majority of PG works, probably between 98 and 100 percent of quotation marks and apostrophes could be reliably corrected without the need for human eyeballing.
www.freekindlebooks.org has a large number of books that were "98% to 100%" "corrected" from straights to curlys "automatically." You can judge for yourself whether this is a good thing or not -- when "automatic" algorithms go bad -- and they will go bad -- the results can be very ugly. [freekindlebooks.org predates that point in time when PG offered real ebooks -- in fact the whole point of freekindlebooks.org was to try to shame PG into offering real ebooks.]