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Old 04-22-2011, 07:56 AM   #39
Anke Wehner
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Originally Posted by djulian View Post
I wish Kindle/Nook/Sony/Etc had this option, but in the Libronix Digital Library System (Logos Bible Software), you have the option of highlighting a portion of text in an eBook, and clicking a "typo" button. It gives you a little window to add notes, correct the text, etc, and then it e-mails the publisher/software company. They log these and release corrections on a pretty regular basis.
With the latest generation of Sony readers you can mark the mistake (and preferrably a few words before and after to make searching easier), put in an annotation, and export an RTF file with a list containing the text snippets you marked and the annotations you put in, which you could then email to the author or publisher.

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Originally Posted by mldavis2 View Post
The real issue with notifying an author of errors is twofold. [...] The other is the constant problem of locating and referencing the error within a page number-less environment ...
Digital files can be searched easily, so if you copy out the whole sentence including the mistake, or at least a few words to make a phrase not found elsewhere in the book, no page numbers are needed.
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