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Originally Posted by meeera
Netgalley isn't proofreading. ARC reviewers aren't paid.
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Yeah well, there have been times I've 1* & DNFed an ARC because the formatting made it virtually unreadable. I'm not a publisher, so what looks like a print mark-up file is useless for me to gain an understanding of the story and the writing. For a start, it doesn't flow on the page properly if the file is broken up by extraneous insertions.
I can just about cope with a PDF, although they can be dodgy to read. Frankly, if publishers want the book reviewed, it should be in final layout, not way back in the process with random changes in style and font (yes, I have seen that happen).