Thread: Content Easily fix egregious X-ray errors
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Old 12-08-2018, 01:36 PM   #8
j.p.s
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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader View Post
Is X-Ray that important for reading a novel at all, or simply an Amazon marketing gimmick?
Whether or not X-Ray is important for reading anything is subjective. For what it is worth, the X-ray builder thread has over 100,000 views.

I would think that keeping characters straight in a long Russian novel with lots of characters, many of which referenced by multiple different names, is the quintessential use case for X-ray. I haven't read War and Peace or any other novel with X-ray yet, but I have found it useful for the half dozen non-fiction books that I have read with it.

One disappointment for me is the large number of errors that could be quickly and easily spotted in cursory checks by (reasonably bright) high school interns at the publisher. This thread is about fixing these errors without even needing to remove DRM or modify the book in any way.
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