Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Earl Dean is the author of Harlan County Horrors (4.06 avg rating, 36 ratings, 5 reviews, published 2009), Camelot Road (0.0 avg rating, 0 ratings. With Harlan County being in the heart of coal country, one might expect a number of the tales to touch on aspects of mining, and that assumption is correct. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. Harlan County Horrors, edited by Mari Adkins, is billed as an anthology of regionally-inspired tales. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high.

We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. Or if you prefer eBooks, get both books for only 8.99. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. To celebrate the release of Mari Adkins‘ first book, Apex Publication is offering this deal for anyone who purchases both Midnight and Harlan County Horrors from now until May 20: Get print editions of both books for only 20, plus free domestic shipping. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition.

Harlan County Horrors by Mari Adkins