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OK, then, let's forget about proofreading (amateur or professional), put a big, conical hat with a "D" on it on our heads, sit in front of our screens and gladly accept the shining spelling and grammatical examples thrown up by the social media sites as the way to go ...
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06-17-2012, 07:28 PM | #243 | |
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If I am reading an eBook and I happen to notice errors, I will mark them and fix them after I've finished reading unless the any of the errors are recurring and annoying enough that I have to fix them before continuing. When I am done, I might not have a perfectly correct eBook, but it will be better then it was before. |
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Rather than nitpick over what exactly is a proofreader, I'd much rather see a book that's at least been read by a human and undergone some basic attempts at error correction; punctuation, capitalization, proper use of hyphens (not simply because the word was hyphenated on paper), OCR errors fixed, etc. |
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06-18-2012, 01:34 AM | #246 |
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That's exactly what I meant.
If the world's languages (to be more precise, English) are going to be bastardised to a greater degree by the internet and social media, and, what's more, these bastardisations become accepted as the norm because the standard of education has slipped drastically and fewer and fewer teachers take the time to correct the students, then there's very little point worrying about whether the text in your ebooks is spelt right, or punctuated right, or grammatically right. If you "proofread" the ebooks, spot the many literals contained therein and then correct them to your heart's content, in many cases it would be like pissing in your wetsuit: it gives you a nice, warm feeling inside; it makes you feel good while you're doing it; it gives you a great sense of relief; nobody else is likely to see you do it; and, best of all, you're the only one who knows you're doing it. Last edited by John the Miner; 06-18-2012 at 01:59 AM. |
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Yes one does, even if inadvertently. I must have a dozen ebooks that I've paid for but are unreadable because of gross formatting errors, and neither the vendor nor the publisher has deigned to answer my emails asking for a refund.
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BTW, has anybody made a comment on the plural of the word 'erratum'? How many of you would correct it when you "proofread" it? I await with bated breath ...
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Or, to put it another way, "facio liberos ex liberi libris libraque" Last edited by plib; 06-22-2012 at 03:33 AM. |
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I would have thought all the "proofreaders" around the joint would have jumped on that one right from the word "go".
But, being a professional proofreader with about 50 years' experience, what would I know? |
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Not enough to put line spaces between your paragraphs apparently.
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06-22-2012, 05:48 AM | #255 |
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Well, if I happened to be doing this professionally, maybe I would have. Seeing I'm not, I'm not worrying about it.
Why should style be an issue in a discussion like this? I don't always put my right foot on the floor first when I get out of bed ... Last edited by John the Miner; 06-22-2012 at 06:01 AM. |
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