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Originally Posted by MartinC
The book the writer is complaining about is Foucault's Pendulum, which was published in English in 1989. No ebooks back then. I wouldn't be surprised to find that the more recent ebook edition was based on some sort of scanning process, which may be where the errors are coming from. No excuse for not checking it, though.
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It also features significant chunks in multiple languages, which is going to throw any automated conversion process, which will probably
introduce errors by over-correcting against a single-language dictionary. That sort of book absolutely requires line by line manual proofing.