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Old 08-08-2018, 09:53 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger View Post
I did. First in the look inside. Other than the cover looking like a bad scan it looked fine. Maybe the sample is different? So check out the sample on Kindle app - still looks good. Have not seen any OCR mistakes. The only thing I seen is formatting a little simple, but still consistant. No real em-dashes, but double dashes instead. Simple quotation marks ("this" instead of “the nice ones”). Hyphens? Yeah I seen hyphens, but those were chosen to be there (e.g. in close-up). Again consistant as "close-up" was mentioned multiple times always spelled the same.

So what exactly is horrible about the sample other than subject and topic? (I even used your link).

ETA: I only read to about 8% of the sample, then I could not handle the mid-life crisis sex topic any more. Maybe all the bad mess happens afterwards?
You don't see the book title, author, epigraph, chapter, and text shown without any spaces between lines or any typographical distinctions? You don't see the new paragraphs sometimes flush and sometimes indented? You don't see periods instead of commas? You don't see words run together (Danishmodern, selfflagellation)? You don't see dialog from different speakers run together in the same paragraph?

And then there are the errors that may or may not have been carried over from the print copy (inconsistent capitalization, no italics for a show title).

I'm stunned that anyone could look at that mess and think it's acceptable.
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