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Old 03-02-2011, 03:24 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by ATDrake View Post
Privately contact the publisher, pointing out that you would very much like to buy the book, but find reading it distracting because of this easily-fixed issue which you think may be putting other potential buyers off?

That way the publisher gets a chance to fix things on their own initiative and a polite reason to do so without being confronted by an Amazon-relayed complaint that might cause them to yank the book from sale in the meantime.
Will do. Thank you very much for the suggestion.

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Or there's always the DIY option of buying and fixing it yourself (often highly frustrating, I can tell you from experience, although you should have a pretty easy search/replace if they've just substituted a gif file throughout for ō).
Hmm, it's a thought. Mind you, we're talking about ū as well as ō (the great tea master Sen no Rikyū gets mentioned a lot), not to mention capital-macron combos in placenames like Ōsaka.

I'll take another boo at the sample and see whether it's doable. Thanks!
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