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Originally Posted by Turtle91
Why?? Spelling, punctuation, and grammar are just presentation....the idea of the story is still there! granted...that's just spelling...but a GREAT story lives inside there...
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Spelling, punctuation & grammar do matter.
The problems seem to be with author's back catalogues, as opposed to current books, which are OCR'd and then not proof read by the publishers. I've got many examples of books where 'the' has be rendered as 'he', 'rn' as 'm' etc. etc.
The worst example of this I've come across is Clive Cussler's Raise the Titanic. Its obviously been OCR'd and NOT proofread as there is a consistent error all through Part 3 of the book where the word 'cornet' has been rendered as 'comet'. Unless you know the story you wouldn't know what was happening especially as what happens here is crucial to the plot. I've attached a small sample of the text to illustrate this.
Publishers wouldn't produce a hardback or paperback edition with this lack of quality, so why can't they take the same care with ebooks?