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. 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. 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. What empire will you swear allegiance to: a warrior merchant of House Steiner the honorbound samurai of House Kurita the vat-bred warriors of the Clans a mercenary that fights only for the highest bidder?Ĭhoose your life in the universe: a MechWarrior piloting the thirty-foot-tall BattleMechs that turn the tide of any battle a spy deep behind enemy lines discovering critical secrets a merchant carrying critical supplies a scientist unleashing the latest cutting edge technologies? Political machinations of feudal lords plunge whole sectors into war unscrupulous merchant starship captains smuggle weapons to their own faction’s enemies greedy military commanders demand tribute from worlds they’re protecting animalistic pirate kings harvest high technologies and human slaves in lightning raids betrayals from oath-bound allies leave honorable soldiers growing cold on forgotten worlds death at the tip of knife from a concubine turned assassin to avenge a world and love lost: it is a time of war. Yet the sins of man have followed him from the cradle of humanity. Mankind has spread to the stars and spawned titanic stellar empires, each controlling hundreds of worlds across a thousand light years and beyond.