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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy
I've seen a number of books that were relatively well proofread in the first half or two-thirds of the book, then the number of errors crept up. It's like the proofreader got bored or something.
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I don't think boredom has anything to do with it (says cynical me). It can only be to get it past preview stages.
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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy
I always say that first, they should run spell-check, then run a script to check for things like odd characters (slashes and percent signs are not common in novels, for example, but show up in scanned text all the time), spaces around hyphens, etc. That would help them catch a lot of errors. They could enter a list of proper names used in the book to exclude them from spell-checking.
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True: A great deal of the errors I saw in Deepsix could have been fixed with a few find-and-replace passes, they were that common. But others were random spelling, formatting and punctuation errors that would've required a manual pass to find and correct.
BTW: Barnes & Noble just refunded my money on the book, after my complaint to them last night. Does that mean they'll pull the book, or that Harper Collins will be notified to proof and resubmit it? We'll see...