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Originally Posted by vxf
Yes, apparently my level of tolerance has been filled. I was reading the Economist today on my Kindle - full of formatting problems, despite being regularly purchased on Amazon's store. The opening section (the 'politics this week') had repeated missed spaces. I counted 12 instances on a single page. I, truly, had to re-start reading the sentence every time - perhaps because I am getting, despite my better judgment, distracted by my aggravation.
And yes, I know what you mean with 'welcome to the rest of the world'. I live in the USA, but I have lived in Croatia, Italy, Switzerland, and England. And I still prefer reading in Italian. So I am fully conscious of how much worse it is elsewhere. I was just, egoistically, hoping that MY problems would be solved now that I am permanently (???) here. The rest of the world may burn. I am a big, fat, American now (was a big fat Italian before).
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I agree that it is inexcusable to have that many errors in something that is produced on a modern computer setup, with auto-correction, grammar checking and whatnot. That just seem sloppy, and if anything The Economist is not thought of as sloppy. So that is surprising, perhaps they all do a PDF output and run it through some automated meat grinder? I don't know, but it sure seems that few hands and even fewer eyes are involved in the production. Maybe if you got off your fat ass (your words
) and complained directly to The Economist, something will happen? Their stake is higher than Amazon's.