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Originally Posted by HarryT
I find it difficult to believe that you can "completely proof" a book in 8-15h. "Completely proof" to me means comparing the ebook to the original source material comma by comma, letter by letter, word by word, line by line. I've been proof-reading books for many years and can't manage more than 10 pages an hour, or some 40h for a 400 page book.
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Ok, perhaps if we are using your definition of "complete proof". (character by character A/B compare, ... there is just no economically feasible way to do this).
I mean going through multiple thorough rounds of successive Formatting/Quality Checking... Applying/searching different fixes each round (Spellcheck, ligatures/accented characters, consistent hyphenation, punctuation errors, inconsistent spelling, etc. etc.)
Feel free to look at any of my EPUBs and let me know of errors. While probably not "100%" error free, the amount of errors can probably be counted on one hand.
You soon reach a period of diminishing returns. You can spend ~8-15 hours (
average for my genre of book) to wittle it down to a handful of errors... and then you can spend about 40 more hours doing a character-by-character check to catch those final handful of errors... or I could have spent that time converting about 2-5 more books QUITE accurately.
Side Note: Should we count actual typos/errors fixed from the original book as negative?
