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Originally Posted by Richwood
I have been a volunteer proofreader for a couple of authors so I know how difficult it can be. SOMETHING always seems to sneak through even multiple proofreaders but the errors still bug me when I am reading and spot them. A few per book are fine but I remember books from one technical book publisher (Tab Books) from years ago which were typographical disasters with frequent spelling errors as well as missing and dropped words in sentences. Obviously unedited as well as incompetently typeset.
I find missing words in a sentence or misuse of homonyms to be most annoying. Due to use of spelling checkers simple misspellings are less common than in the past except with poorly edited scanned to digital ebooks.
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Ah but even a good spell checking program won't pick up everything. I mean if someone uses "there" when they should have used "their" or "they're" for example or "Your" when they meant "you're" etc. Those kind of errors get me.