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Originally Posted by Just4kix
Backlist books that have been scanned in should at least be free of spelling and grammar issues, but may suffer from formatting problems
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What I mean by Proofread is I bought a few blacklist titles that had typically scan errors in it like 1 instead of 1 and / instead of ! that sort of thing. A simple regex in Word can help you scan for those type of mistakes and fix them.
Formatting is bad with most backlist or indie titles I bought. There are several different font types, sizes and chapters aren't even marked. They're not very eReader friendly.
I even came across a depreciated html tag I haven't seen anyone ever use before <tt> It makes text look like a typewriter I found out. Which is odd because it's was so out of place in the book and I'm not even sure how it got it there!
The RTF copy of that book was missing text so I had to use the epub copy and had Calibre's search and replace removed them.
But to make it fair. I recently bought a book by Sourcebook, Inc. It's a new author and it look like a fun story. I paid full price for it.
The grammar in this book is horrible! I don't know how it passed an editor's eyes. Simple sentence structure missing simple words like The, Then, a, an, and...etc Not to mention the author has a really bad habit of not describing the character's physical actions clearly. I really blame the editor here. They did not read the book..they couldn't have and let that many mistakes pass.