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Originally Posted by HarryT
Their books really can't be terribly well proofed at the price they're offering them for - it's an enormously time-consuming and expensive process. I can proof-read about 10 pages an hour, so that would equate to 40 hours work for a 400 page book.
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That's true - but you actually perform close and painstaking proof-reading. In fact, I believe you've stated before that you do a side-by-side comparison with a paperback/hardback as you go, is that correct?
I was hoping at least for an initial pass in some kind of automated spelling/grammar checker. You can do that quite quickly after a while. You just need to perform it on the text before you do the epub/mobi formatting part of the process.
Maybe I should actually do it for a text myself and see how easy it actually is before I mouth off too much further.
I mean I didn't expect perfection, but I did expect a little better than an initial OCR scan that's all. As I said before, the text available on Gutenberg is better by an order of magnitude and that did surprise me a little.