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Originally Posted by DNSB
Sometimes? My experience is that the books I get from Kindle run over 50% formatting that is pathetic.
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I was being nice.
My biggest pet peeve is opening a book and seeing the following:
Spaces between paragraphs
Line heights more than 1.30
Indents less than 1.5
If that happens, I have to stop and fix it.
Then if I get into the story and come across the following, I have to make a decision to DNF or try and push through with either editing or glossing over.
Overuse of a phrase or specific word - I swear one author used the word "trotted" in any place where any derivative or walk or went. "We trotted over to the table" "We trotted down the hallway", "I trotted over to him"....drove me nuts. This particular author used a lot of the same words or phrases througout the books so much that I ended up going into them and doing search and replaces, and still ended up dropping the series.
Even using a single word will throw me off so much that I will DNF the book
One New Adult series had the heroine calling her underwear "skivvies". Seriously, it's an erotic romance and she's calling her underwear "skivvies" more than once. I had to DNF because I couldn't get past it. While another author (whose work I adore) would always use the term "black boxer-briefs" anytime the hero stripped down. I didn't notice it at first, but when I did, I became annoyed. I am still comtemplating going in and fixing that.
LOL.