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Originally Posted by simonroyle
have you been adding them up?
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So far I am about 35% into the book and have some 20 screen captures with notes from my reader.
Some of those errors are straight quotes vs. typographical quotes,
words like
hetro bar (shouldn't be
hetero?). It is invented word anyway ...
Things like using Kilos and Kilometers for distance in the same sentence.
A few missing spaces *possibly* a missing colon or two ...
So far I haven't caught any glaring inconsistencies - that is mistakes in facts, relations to the previously described scenes, scientific impossibilities (*)...
This is what I usually spot in such books that I am writing a critique for. You see, English is my third language (used to be fourth), so I do not consider myself a spelling or grammar expert ;-), at least not in English.
I think, you need somebody that is totally disinterested in your book, so he/she pays attention to spelling and grammar and formatting and facts. Not people like me that find themselves "lost" in a pageturner way too often ;-).
One of the authors here (author of Lethe - a book that I thoroughly recommend) said that she received the best and most detailed error log from somebody that hated her book, so he was looking at it with a very critical eye and was not distracted by the book itself.
(*) apart from the scene on the moonbase where main hero is hypnotized and hypnotizer elaborates how he is going to hide some info in an unused part of his brain. This explanation somehow didn't resonate well with me.