[avantman42]

Originally Posted by tompe

Well, all new ebooks I read do not have this problem. Do you have any example of this for books that are not converted by scanning?

I have some examples.

Main Battle Tank by Niall Edworthy (non-fiction):

With the AFV 432 vehicle pinned down by the hail of fire

The correct designation is FV432.

manned by a REME fitter section, and an AVF 430 ambulance.

I'm not sure what "AVF 430 ambulance" refers to. The book is about a British tank regiment in Iraq in 2003. My first thought was that it meant the FV430 Mk3 Bulldog, but that didn't enter service until some years later.

It also uses the acronym "ATW" for "anti-tank weapon", an acronym neither I, nor anyone else I've asked, has ever come across before. The more usual acronyms are ATGW (anti-tank guided weapon) or ATGM (anti-tank guided missile).

Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik has the remarkable typo "and I hope you will permit me to suggest, Wilberforcewritten had, that any Oriental touch"

Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik (these are also present in my paperback copy):

‘There girl, hold fast, hold fast—’ The captain of the gun-crew spoke to the canon as if she were a skittish horse,

where two enormous heavyweight dragons were holding on to it: a Grand Chevalier, and a Parnassian, middle-aged, likely traded to France during an earlier peacetime, and a Grand Chevalier.

But the Regal Copper did not take the hint; or at any rate he did not choose to go. but instead settled himself

I've seen others, but those were the ones that I could immediately remember well enough to find easily.