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There are a lot of books that are only available through piracy. You can download 1 GB torrents containing more books than anyone will ever read in a year, and
by gamble 15y ago
There are a lot of books that are only available through piracy. You can download 1 GB torrents containing more books than anyone will ever read in a year, and yet there are still major books like Dune that aren't available to Kindle users. The selection for older, out-of-print titles is even worse.
- neutronicus 15y agoGraduate level math and science textbooks, too.
- icebraining 15y agoIsn't this Dune for Kindle? http://www.amazon.com/Dune-Sf-Masterworks-ebook/dp/B004KA9UXO/ http://www.amazon.com/Dune-Sf-Masterworks-ebook/dp/B004KA9UX...
- larsberg 15y agoI think the author is pointing out that the Kindle version of Dune is terrible. Horrible typos, bad formatting, etc. Unfortunately, many middle-aged books have this problem, and unless you can wade through the Amazon reviews (which are not format-specific) and find out, you don't know whether the publisher just copy/pasted a text file and hit PublishNow! or actually had an editor sit down with it, mark chapters, fix typos introduced, un-break words if it was scanned, etc.
- corin_ 15y agoJust to chime in with a little more strength than an invisible upvote, this is one of those things that doesn't sound to annoying until you're experiencing it yourself. I used to read reviews complaining about it and think "stop whining" to myself, but now that I'm ready books that I paid for and which clearly went straight through OCR software with no human supervision... Really, really frustrating.
- rmc 15y ago1 agrec its very distracting and ma|<es it hard to fol1ow thc words. These are examples of OCR errors I've seen on ebooks I've paid for
- waterlesscloud 15y agoSo more argument against publishers adding value.