(Be sure to see my edited post above, I added some stuff at the end)
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Originally Posted by cybmole
a "most annoying typos " repository would be a great addition to this site, if practical
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Well in the E-book uploads section on MobileRead, you can just post in the person's topic, and hope they see it... Usually the people who post books here are extremely proud of their conversions, and will fix typos up right away.
I know if I am informed of any typos, I fix them up ASAP and get new versions up.
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Originally Posted by cybmole
just a simple 1 thread per book place to dump findings so that someone else could maybe benefit
IBSN + format would suffice to uniquely identify ?
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I gave this some thought a while back when I was first hired... the typo situation really makes me angry!
I tried a Wiki, but it was pretty crappy... people don't have the same standards:
- Some people were using the dreaded calibre/ADE/iBooks/Kindle page numbers.
- What if a person was reading a slightly different version of the book than you (EPUB/Kindle)?
- There was no control on revisions. What if theirs was a "v3" and yours was a "v6"?
- What is the naming convention from Amazon? I have never purchased a book from them (nor do I plan to).
- This is why I started tagging everything I convert with a [DD.MM.YYYY] format.
- Some people were only posting partial sentences
- More might also be helpful if it is a "potential" error/typo, so others can quickly gather context without having to look it up in the book.
- This was enough for me working on a digital copy, I can just search/replace, but for the typesetter to go back and fix the physical copy, it was not so easy.
- (Physical) This is why I upgraded to marking the Page + paragraph #.
A gathering of typos in books doesn't really exist anywhere (at least to my knowledge).... which is why I just started posting them on that blogspot I put up.
Maybe:
- link to directly to the B&N/Amazon/Kobo/whatever page you purchased it from
- (or if Public Domain, directly to the Archive.org/PDF).
- Title
- Author
- any relevant info (filename, version number, etc. etc.).
- Example: The books that I purchased from B&N come in the format:
- ##############_epub.v#.epub
- "ISBN#" + "_epub." + "version number" + .epub
If you have a book club, and a lot of people are reading the same book... make sure everyone just jots down any mistakes they find. Combine + post.
Or if you have a class where everyone is reading the same book, promote reporting errors! Combine + post!
If there is no digital copy of the book yet, it would be extremely helpful if there was a list of typos that people have already ran into in the physical/PDF, so when someone comes along in the future to digitize it, they can use it! For example, in my case, I work mostly on books that have never been digitized (besides the PDF scan). I want to put out the highest quality HTML/EPUB copy of the book, and the typo reports would help me towards that goal.
Having the typos out in a public place might be able to warn others of the crappiness, or push the publishers towards fixing the version... as a last resort, it can help others fix their own copies of the ebooks.
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Originally Posted by cybmole
quoting extracts of copyright books purely to show errors should be legal ?
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It should be.... although I don't know how they would like it if the conversion was so crappy there are typos on every paragraph. :P
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Originally Posted by Jellby
I guess that depends on the publisher, but most probably it will.
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LOL according to my knowledge, they usually just toss it in the
trash filing cabinet because they don't have any plans of releasing any new versions of the book
ever any time in the near future.
Side Note: I see that the A Song of Ice and Fire books came out with a few newer versions since I last downloaded them off of B&N. Time to compare them and see what they changed.
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Originally Posted by Jellby
I used to do that, now I use my reader's highlight feature for that  |
My Nook has crappy highlighting, and I don't trust it to save the highlights correctly (I typically overwrite the EPUB as soon as I fix it in Sigil)! Now if only there was a way I could have Sigil while laying in bed reading... now that would be ultimate!