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I've tried reading a few different editions of Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad. The first one was free (public domain) but the formatting was so terrible I co
by eatonphil 6y ago
I've tried reading a few different editions of Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad. The first one was free (public domain) but the formatting was so terrible I couldn't get through the first page. The text was center aligned, missing periods.
Then I bought a version of it for $3 thinking the formatting must be better if I'm paying for it. It was not. I finally bought a $10 version of it and the formatting was still awful enough that I couldn't get through the first 5 pages.
For older books it feels like you have to buy a paper copy otherwise the formatting is somehow unreadable.
- robin_reala 6y agoUnfortunately it takes time to produce high quality books. We’ve got a growing corpus of free public domain works at Standard Ebooks, including five Twain titles,[1] but regardless of a steadily growing set of volunteers it takes two weeks to eighteen months to produce a good edition of a book. [1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/mark-twain https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/mark-twain