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E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance (www.fastcompany.com)

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[-] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Most of the books I have on my reader are not available in epub or formats like it, rather as pdf/djvu scans. So I'd add it might be absolutely worth it to pay more for a big screen.

Also the device never ever connects to the internet. Gives you more freedom.

[-] NoStressyJessie 6 points 1 year ago

You can easily convert pdf files to epub then do a little light editing to make sure you don’t have weird artifacts like page numbers the book name or author name. I can process a pdf to epub in 20 minutes at most (most are a minute it two) for average novel length, which I understand is a big ask for lots of folks but it’s worth it to me to have the file in a format that I can keep and use on pretty much anything.

[-] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Mind giving a rundown of how you do it? I tried it many, many times and never accomplished much

[-] NoStressyJessie 2 points 1 year ago

Use convert.io to convert pdf to EPUB
Import EPUB to editor software such as sigil
Find editing issues in the text by hand, once you’ve found one issue that gets repeated like “AuThOr 78” for page numbers
Use the search and replace function to replace all instances with blank
Skim over the text for a couple minutes not reading, but looking for other weird breaks in the text flow
When you think you have them all export the file and start reading, if you see any other less obvious issues mark them in the notes and do a final edit for aesthetics

You now have the book on EPUB to be placed in your personal cloud or whatever.

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