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Originally Posted by Abecedary
The copy of Anathem that I purchased from Sony has some strings of what should be small caps, but they're not set in small caps.
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I finished reading that a little while ago. I didn't notice a small caps problem (I may have just missed it) but I did notice that there were a few places where it looked like there were supposed to be footnotes. (I.e. a superscripted asterisk after a sentence.) I know that Stephenson has used footnotes in some of his other books, particularly the Baroque Cycle, so I was suspicious that he actually had used footnotes in Anathem also - but that the electronic version was simply missing them altogether. (I don't know how footnotes - as opposed to endnotes - could be applied to an electronic book, but surely they should go
somewhere rather than simply being absent altogether.)
On a related note, I've read several electronic books now that:
1. Have mis-spelled words. These don't even exist in the English language. And they are repeated. So, it's obvious that a physical book was scanned in and mistakes were generated via OCR software. But, after this was done, the result wasn't even run through a spell check!
2. French words with accents that use uppercase letters rather than lowercase. So, for instance, instead of é you get É.