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Helena Brown

@hellmark.org

Any chance of getting an epub that isn't horribly broken?

24/4/26, 7:23 am0 reposts1 like

mancmatt.bsky.social

@mancmatt.bsky.social

25 Apr

How is it even possible that they have had to use OCR to make an epub? Surely they have digital originals

Helena Brown

@hellmark.org

24 Apr

Not complaining, and I will happily pay, just the epub at the link has all of the formatting completely lost, and none of the images (even the cover is missing). Notes in the margins are crammed in the middle of text from the page, no paragraphs, and bullet points are converted to just an asterisk.