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[HUGH]

John,

What are E-books for?  Some of the books on my shelves have served other uses - eg, acting as a support for something - but I can't see an E-book being any good at that. I've had a go at consulting some E-books, ones I've already used in a library, and found them, without exception, utterly impenetrable and error ridden. The only text recognition system I've ever used is OCR, and many a happy hour I've spent correcting the mangled results, including its attempts at recognising deceased small insects on the page.  In these books I saw no sign that anyone had ever checked the text.

Hugh.
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