Thread: Content How many X-ray mistaken identities can you find in your books?
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Old 06-10-2019, 06:49 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader View Post
Is it any more than a marketing gimmick that detracts from the flow of reading a book? You can look up a phrase or word in Wikipedia if you have WiFi, and generally via phone / tablet / PC it it's really important.
I don't think any book I've bought from Amazon actually has X-Ray, so maybe I'm mistaken and it's a brilliant idea. However, with my Author hat on (I've written 25+ books), it sounds obnoxious and worse than footnotes or Wikipedia articles with too many links that are not really anything to do with the actual article.

Neither I, nor my publisher is interested in generating so called X-ray information and how can any 3rd party generate it in a way that is accurate or would satisfy author or publisher?
The sole topic of this thread is error in x-ray content, even how to correct such errors is off topic (there is a thread for that).. If you want to discuss any other aspect of x-ray, please find or start a thread on that topic.
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