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Originally Posted by Luffy
Books in retail condition very rarely have typos.
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Should be qualified perhaps.
An example - Winston Graham: The Little Walls (from 1955, republished as ebook in 2013 by Bello (PanMacmillan))
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‘‘We’d better try this; evening’’ I said, it as soon as it goes dark.’’
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snippet from Chapter 3
The book has all kind of errors mentioned in this thread (OCR artifacts, hit-and-miss punctuation and quotation marks, hard line-breaks inside paragraphs ...). Isn't a big deal for me, but I can't see it being the product of "a bad day in the office for the OCR team" when even errors are found which should have been fixed with a simple spell-checking.
I've encountered a good deal of errors in OCRed books republished in recent years by major publishers. New releases are much better done (as error-free as pbooks and much more consistently formatted I think). An example for this: much enjoyed "The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons" by Lawrence Block - would be hard pressed to recall an error in this very nicely styled ebook.