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I dislike many of the books from the Sony site have wide margins around the text. One had almost 0.5" on all sides and tiny, tiny text inside that margin. Even at the "L" setting it was still hard to read. (Not that there were that many words left on each line.)
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Just lately I have been driven mad by really stupid errors in books - not sure if it is lack of editing or OCR.
Last year I read a historical Romance in which there was a picture of lemonade at a picnic and someone used the ores to row a boat. This kind of stuff throws me out of reader's trance. It seems to be happening more and more. |
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What's wrong with using oars to row a boat, by the way? Oars have been around for thousands of years - certainly since the times of Phoenicians traders around 1000 BC or so.
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06-05-2008, 06:45 AM | #24 |
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well, ores work better than oars, because most of them are a lot heavier than wood, so you get a stronger pull and you can go a lot faster.
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I assumed it was just a typo; it would be rather pointless to try to correct everyone's spelling mistakes. However, if a book really did say that a boat was rowed with "ores" then that is, of course, a different matter entirely.
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Well, if the message was about errors in books, I assume it's actually an error in a book
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06-05-2008, 07:53 AM | #27 |
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i just assumed that if it were her own typo (and not in the book) she probably wouldn't have used it as an example here...
EDIT : right, what Jellby said (must learn to stop opening 6 topics in tabs at once and not refreshing the last page before replying...) |
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But presumably the point about the "lemonade" is that it would be an anachronism at that point in history (I'm guessing?).
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oh ? nothing strikes you as odd about serving images of refreshments, rather than the refreshments themselves ?
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Now I'm getting really confused . I thought that the previous poster was saying that the book contain a picture of lemonade being served at a picnic .
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