My biggest complaint with the Kindle was that I bought it right before I went on vacation, and one of the e-books I wanted to read on the road turned out to be

My biggest complaint with the Kindle was that I bought it right before I went on vacation, and one of the e-books I wanted to read on the road turned out to be unusable because it was produced using really awful OCR. How, and why, would you scan a several-hundred-page technical book and then sell it for close to its print price without some kind of minimal check for accuracy? They went to the trouble of separating the tables and diagrams from the main text, but they didn't notice that every minus sign was replaced with a space, and every colon that was printed in a particular typeface in the original was missing from the e-book. It was a recent book, too, so I'm doubly shocked that the publisher used OCR instead of converting their existing electronic documents into an e-book digitally. That experience convinced me to ditch the Kindle and avoid the early-adopter pains.