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[abject_reptile]

Many of the books I read are downloaded from the Internet Archive in .mobi format but often the PDF doesn't transition well to .mobi and there are formatting and other errors. I've never found an error half as amusing as this one from Random Shots from a Rifleman"I have often heard it disputed whether the most daring deeds are done by men of good

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[xylohypha]

Oh, dear. That is unfortunate.

I'm not terribly fond of reading fiction in .pdf format. It always seems cumbersome to me to navigate through the document, and transition to other formats (as you say) is often less than optimal.

[abject_reptile]

It's the sort of narrative where it seemed quite possible that someone might have fired an object out of his anus though no one would have said so in print at the time. I keep imagining it in a Sharpe episode...

I have a few pdfs on the tablet but I don't read books on the pc so they have to be converted to one of the Kindle formats. I let Internet Archive convert to mobi or I do it with Calibre. Mostly, it works well and the errors tend to be predictable.

[lenine2]

A bad character, indeed. Was he wearing pants?

[abject_reptile]

No. That's why he was such a noted bad character.

I'm still imagining it in a Sharpe episode but it just got waaaay more interesting.

[abject_reptile]

It was a marketable skill after the war.

[leaflet]

Sounds like one of those stories that makes the rounds of The Knickers.

[abject_reptile]

There are many tall tales of hobbits with remarkable abilities to, erm, eject foreign bodies.

There's a bird who likes to sit on the suet cage. I'm sure it's always the same bird.