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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Who cares? I rather not have the sample wasted space with the "proper" front matter. Even if the book was like this I really could care less about it.
Yes, whenever I see a non indented paragraph I am imagining a little gap in between that one and the last. Periods instead of points? Now you are complaining about too simple sentences? I rather have simple sentences than long ones where nobody bothered to add any punctuation. Writing style is horrible, I give you that. But I am not judging that - it might have been done on purpose. Running words together is not a foreign concept to me, I am German after all. If I see an author wrongly use compound words that are technically spelling mistakes in "pure english", I just think that they have knowledge in more than one language. That is refreshing to see, and usually doesn't make me lose my pace. OTOH what I don't like is the inclusion of real German words that are used incorrectly (e.g. plural form used when a single is referenced) -- either do it right or stick to english words.
It is not a front list book. Even when it was new it was a midlist. Why are you demanding frontlist quality on a backlist formerly midlist title?
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Unbelievable. Typography and formatting matter. Paragraphs matter.
Periods instead of COMMAS. I'm not saying one word about writing style, I'm saying that's an OCR error that was ignored.
The book is rendered in English, not German, and we do no run words together willy-nilly. Even taking the step of running the OCR output through spellcheck would have indicated such mistakes, but no one even bothered to do that.
What difference does it make if it's midlist? Minimum standards of quality should be met.
The book is priced at EIGHT BUCKS. There's no way that's justifiable. No. Way.