On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 08:04:22PM -0400, jessamyn c. west wrote:
> If you can send me a list of the nine missing-page corrupted EPUBs
> (send Open Library URLs if you can) I can open a ticket.
I'll do that separately, though I don't see any actual *point* to
addressing this on an individual book basis. I picked a random sample of
books I'd previously borrowed to test if there had been any improvement.
If the sample is representative of the database in general - and I don't
know why it wouldn't be, other than that I borrow particular genres of
books published in a particular 40 year timespan - then the majority of
ePubs in the database are corrupted or damaged.
And if that's so, you could spend an unbounded amount of time
dealing with them on an individual basis, and borrowers will always
experience a good deal of aggravation understanding and identifying
what's happening.
I think what should happen is for the entire ePub database to be
regenerated, or for diagnostics to be performed to identify the damaged
ePubs, and those regenerated. At some point in the previous discussion
about this, someone - Tom or Greg, perhaps - thought they had a way to
automatically identify ePubs with the problem.
> I had pretty
> much thought that had been fixed, the reports of that issue have
> shrunk to zero in the support inbox.
With a much better than even chance of an unsuccessful borrowing
operation, I think many people are just going to give up, or borrow the
PDFs instead if they happen to realize those are undamaged. I only
checked back now because I happened to be glancing through old email and
wanted to see if there had been any improvement. Otherwise it's an
exercise in frustration to spend several minutes checking out a book and
getting it into ADE, when it's probably going to be useless.
Jon
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