Thread: Ebooks filled with typos and bad formatting, is it unavoidable?
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Old 07-18-2011, 10:37 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by MovieBird View Post
I'm reading the US edition as well, and while I haven't noticed typos, per se, I'm having a tough time following the dialogue. It's rather common for diaoluge to go like this:

[Person A]"I have something interesting to say!" [Person B]"Ah, but you didn't let me tell you about the 21 course meal I just ate along with all the delicious spices!" [Person A]"Huh?"

Notice how there's no paragraph break between A & B. It makes it rather difficult to follow some conversations, which means I have to go back and re-read these parts.

There's no excuse for this other than laziness, as I'm sure GRRM had it properly formatted on the Word document he submitted to his publisher.
I noticed that in some ebooks as well. Terribly annoying.

I can't say I had many formatting problems and typos with most ebooks - only the occasional typo, but that happens in print as well. But I did notice lots of typos in free books on Guthenberg or Google.
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