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Old 10-21-2023, 10:43 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
In the ebooks I buy, I see about the same amount of typos that I did in print books (pre-ebook). Which is not many.
I think the record for errors I've seen, that a proof-reader should have caught, was in a book published circa 1990.
One major grammatical error per page.
One minor grammatical error per paragraph.
Two typos per sentence.

This was a US$40 trade paperback published by one of the major publishing houses in New York City.

I'm almost at the point of OCRing any hardcopy book I buy, simply because both proof-reading and copy-editing are required.
At least Calibre makes it easy to correct ebooks.
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