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Originally Posted by Catlady
If you didn't count them, how did you come up with "well over 200"?
Why is it stupid for the publisher to ask for corrections to be sent to them if you claim there were so many?
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By looking at the line number on the text editor I was listing them in. And that didn't count all the conversational words like 'bout where every instance of the word had the wrong facing single quote, there were 33 of those words scattered throughout the book.
Others already answered that which is how I pretty much feel about it. With that many errors, I really can't believe the book was ever proofread by a human before its release.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
Perhaps the publisher was skeptical of the claim. Or wanted to know what the person considered an error. Were these supposedly factual errors, grammatical errors, alternate spellings, stylistic inconsistencies, unconventional punctuation, typos?
I've seen people call things errors that are not errors at all, but matters of author choice and editorial judgment.
But possibly the book in question was an unproofed OCR.
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And yes, they were real errors, not a writing style choice. A lot of them were OCR errors not caught, such as two single quotes in place of a double quote, periods and commas in the middle of a sentence instead of a space between the words, Il in place of ll, wrong facing quotation marks, missing beginning or ending quotation marks, sometimes an extra set of quote marks were included, just to name a few. Wrong words picked up by the OCR such as "ouy" instead of "out," "stroking us beard" instead of "stroking his beard," really obvious errors that couldn't be mistaken as writing style. There were paragraphs split incorrectly in 2 in the middle of sentences, and instances where conversations by several different people weren't split into different paragraphs, just all run together.
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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
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The book was "Moonbog" by Rick Hautala. I've always loved his books, but hate the digital conversions of them all so far. Which is why I went through the trouble of emailing the publisher.
And they did list the copy editor at the beginning of the book. But I suspect that person worked off a hard copy and didn't then reread the OCR result.
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
It's a by-product of my mental health issues. Things that are wrong leap out at me. It also makes it impossible to watch TV with logos in the corner of the screen, even if they are almost invisible.
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I don't mind the semi-transparent stationary logos in a corner of the screen, but I detest the content that keeps jumping, sliding and bouncing across the screen covering up as much as 1/3 of the screen. Those drive me absolutely nuts, US TV has gone crazy with covering shows and movies with more ads about other TV shows and movies.
When I read websites, errors jump out at me the same way. Those are usually just misspelled words though, but it still bothers me.