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Originally Posted by Thom*
DON'T FORGET THAT A quote might need to be added. I have seen cases where this whole concern is an issue at scene changes in addition to chapter starts.
MAYBE AS NEW BOOKS ARE published electronically and the publisher/printer is left out of the picture this will be less of an issue.
ONLY TIME WILL tell," he said.
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Just in case anyone is mistaken, the publisher/printer didn't neglect to put in the opening quote, the scanning software lost it, and the OCR Fixup process failed to detect its absence, as it often fails to detect these scanner errors:
'The cow jumped over the moon."
'Where is Sally today?"
Toxaris' Dialogue Checker will detect and assist in correcting such errors.
My observation is that electronic only books that have dispensed with the services of publishers, editors, printers etc, more often than not also dispense with reading the proofs! Prevailing attitude seems to be if they pass epubcheck, get through the KDP etc etc, then they must be readable 
BR