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tezza · 12-18-2009, 07:42 PM

I posted earlier on this thread about how I tried to purchase some Star Trek books from Read Without Paper, but I couldn't due to geographic restrictions. (No fault of theirs.)

Finally managed to buy some from Books on Board. Paid about $10 each. And guess what? They are RIDDLED with typos. Pathetic.

Is Captain Kirk's best friend SPOCK, or SPECK? Hard to tell as you read William Shatner's DARK VICTORY.

My favourite passage...

"On the semen, a thin blue stream of phased energy shot from the Voyager to find its target."

Sentences are muddled, about 50% of the hyphens that should be there aren't, and there's at least one typo per page.

I've downloaded other books that have other problems (thought nothing like the Trek books). For example, in Greg Rucka's FISTFUL OF RAIN, the first letter of each chapter is omitted.

If publishers want us to pay a premium for these ebooks, rather than take the free alternative, they'd better pull up their proverbial socks.

12-18-2009, 07:42 PM	#93
tezza Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 58 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: EZ Reader	I posted earlier on this thread about how I tried to purchase some Star Trek books from Read Without Paper, but I couldn't due to geographic restrictions. (No fault of theirs.) Finally managed to buy some from Books on Board. Paid about $10 each. And guess what? They are RIDDLED with typos. Pathetic. Is Captain Kirk's best friend SPOCK, or SPECK? Hard to tell as you read William Shatner's DARK VICTORY. My favourite passage... "On the semen, a thin blue stream of phased energy shot from the Voyager to find its target." Sentences are muddled, about 50% of the hyphens that should be there aren't, and there's at least one typo per page. I've downloaded other books that have other problems (thought nothing like the Trek books). For example, in Greg Rucka's FISTFUL OF RAIN, the first letter of each chapter is omitted. If publishers want us to pay a premium for these ebooks, rather than take the free alternative, they'd better pull up their proverbial socks.