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Old 12-12-2011, 05:18 PM   #105
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I read Turing Evolved on two evenings last week and really enjoyed it. Indeed, I enjoyed it so much that I made a little donation.

There were some editing issues which I noticed, mostly in the second part, but only one grated on my nerves. All in all, I have read ebooks with worse editing.

Using the epub (second edition I think) from Smashwords, this are the problems I noticed and remember:
  • The protagonist is more than once refered to as "mister Colson" by one person.
  • The chapter headings aren't marked as headings (h1 or h2), so on my reader the (automatic) table of contents was useless and the headings weren't formated correctly. The table of contents is also not useable in Sigl, so it may not only be my reader but the epub itself.
  • I can't find it at the moment, but here was one sentence during the battle which seemed wrong and didn't really make sense to me. It was the only time I had to stop and try to understand what the intended meaning was.
  • There were at least two instances of a doubled word, which looked like a correction without deleting the mistyped word.
  • Some punctuation and mistypings
    • Chapter 9: “Yeah., that was some ride the other day wasn’t it. I’ve been trying to find out what was going on,” he said. (Not sure, but shouldn't the first sentence end with a question mark and also have a comma before wasn't?)
    • Chapter 11: “Private server?” I asked?
    • Chapter 20: "If that **** **** thinks that he’s a better f***** pilot that me"
    • Chapter 20: “I’ll keep than in mind,”
I don't know, which of this problems were already known to you. Perhaps a public errata would help others to send you corrections. As it is, people may think that the problems they noticed are already known.

Last edited by Dr. Drib; 12-12-2011 at 06:52 PM.
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