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Re: Missing words?

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Alanna636 wrote: 13 Apr 2014, 18:02 Does anyone else notice that with some e-books it seems like words might be missing randomly throughout the book?
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I haven't noticed that at all. Sometimes the spacing is a little jenky. But other than that it seems fine to me
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Post by Tzara Drusak »

This is so an issue in almost every book I read. Sometimes, if it's a pattern visible throughout the entirety of the book, I can attribute it to the author as not having the book properly edited. Otherwise, when there are inconsistent, random errors it's surely due to the E-reader not reading the document properly. What I do in this case is to open the book or document in another reader, and see if the problem persists.

I'm not sure what the problem is exactly, but I do know that it happens a lot.
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It's more of misspelled words and paragraphing issues.
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Post by Shrabastee Chakraborty »

Not only missing words, there are duplicated, repeated words and phrases and sentences.. Sometimes tha graphics are missing, or a letter is replaced by another letter every time, like 'b' in the place of 'h'. Most of the time I can manage reading in spite of these. But sometimes they become very distracting, even frustrating! Once in a thriller book, the last few paragraphs were missing, instead the last word in that ebook was a meaningless one! You realise how I felt!
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I think there're missing words even in some hard copies.
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It may be because the books are on first hand not being properly edited.
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I thought I was just the one who was experiencing this. The worst thing is often; it leads me to halt reading because of such a dilemma. I tend to ponder whether which one has the problem. Great to know, I’m not the only one.
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I do sometimes find that some words are missing in my ebook, but I have realized most of this is influenced by the font size you are using. Adjusting the font size sometimes help in resolving it.
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Post by Alexandur Gicov »

Actually yes! in some reading applications, there is a lack of whole paragraphs, as well as line spacing. But I attribute it to the difference in applications. If the book is made of one and you use another to read.
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I definitely find formatting issues and sometimes random symbols that will appear in the e-books but I just chop it up to the conversion process.
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