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Originally Posted by shalym
Eh--I've seen worse formatting. That would bother me, but not enough to make me take the trouble of changing it. The only thing that would tempt me to change it is when authors/publishers embed stupid stylized fonts that are hard to read, and I can't change it. Anything else, my mind just ignores after the initial "ewww".
Excessive spelling and grammar errors, on the other hand, make me crazy.
Of course, past experience tells me that generally neither of these will cause me to go to the trouble of "fixing" the book...I generally just read it (if possible) or give up on it (if ignoring and reading isn't possible). In the second case, I do complain to the author, or publisher, or vendor, or in one notable case, all three.
I guess I'm just lazy.
Shari
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In my case, with enough practice and automating much of the process, it doesn't take that long for most books to clean up the formatting so I don't mind indulging my wife's desire to have a book she considers readable.
I have tried complaining to the author/publisher/vendor but in most cases, it's been cold pancakes and no honey. In one case, the author/publisher didn't appear to know the difference between reign, rein and rain and was quite happy to inform me that they were not misspellings so she didn't see why I would complain.
I did wonder about an author for whom writing that Queen Victoria had "rained" for over 63 years was not an issue nor was her apparent ignorance of the fact that she had written her book 3 years after Queen Elizabeth II had reigned for longer than Queen Victoria so referring to Queen Victoria as the longest "raining" monarch in British history was incorrect.