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faithbw · 10-04-2013, 05:56 PM

I'm currently reading a book that uses a lot of foreign terms. These terms often have diacritical marks. I have this book in print but bought it as an e-book because it was so cheap. So initially I bought it from the Sony Reader store because Sony had a 40% off coupon at the time. So I started to read the e-book with the Sony Reader app on my tablet but there were so many errors with the transliterated words. The primary error was showing a box with a x in the middle wherever a diacritical mark was suppose to be. So decided to buy the book on the Kindle app. It cost a little more than the book did at Sony (to be fair, Amazon's price is cheaper if the coupon wasn't applied to the Sony copy) but I wanted to see if the same errors would appear. Lo and behold, they didn't. It feels great to be able to read the book as it was intended to be read without squares popping up on every page.

Have any of you encountered something similar? Which bookstore is the worse offender when it comes to typos, bad formatting, etc. Which bookstores tend to get these things right?

10-04-2013, 05:56 PM	#1
faithbw Guru Posts: 618 Karma: 1526148 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: A place where the sun always shines Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Mini 2	Same book from different stores but one has lots of typos I'm currently reading a book that uses a lot of foreign terms. These terms often have diacritical marks. I have this book in print but bought it as an e-book because it was so cheap. So initially I bought it from the Sony Reader store because Sony had a 40% off coupon at the time. So I started to read the e-book with the Sony Reader app on my tablet but there were so many errors with the transliterated words. The primary error was showing a box with a x in the middle wherever a diacritical mark was suppose to be. So decided to buy the book on the Kindle app. It cost a little more than the book did at Sony (to be fair, Amazon's price is cheaper if the coupon wasn't applied to the Sony copy) but I wanted to see if the same errors would appear. Lo and behold, they didn't. It feels great to be able to read the book as it was intended to be read without squares popping up on every page. Have any of you encountered something similar? Which bookstore is the worse offender when it comes to typos, bad formatting, etc. Which bookstores tend to get these things right?