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Originally Posted by AlexBell
I recently had a contributor send me a list of typos in two of the ebooks I have done for the MobileRead library recently. Though I was very grateful to be told of the typos (and to be given the corrections) I was horrified at how many typos I had missed. Can anyone give me references or ideas on how to improve my proofreading? I've searched the MobileRead site, but haven't found much.
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Use a bigger font size when proof-reading. Use a font that clearly distinguishes between full stops and commas, between 1 and l and I, and between other commonly confused letters/letter combinations (e.g. rn and m)
But you'll never catch everything.