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I've almost finished Verdant Skies as an ePub on my ECO reader, and have noticed some things which may be typos or may be problems with my reader.
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Thanks for the feedback, Alex. In order:
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- When one opens Chapter 2 the heading is President?s Arrival. On websites the ? usually indicates that a character is present which is not recognised, so I would like to know whether this character is in the original text and whether it is replaced by ? in other ePub readers.
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I have seen that before: It is a reaction to MS Word apostrophes, which are not recognized as standard apostrophes by many non-word apps (same thing with MS quotes). I thought I'd caught those, so I have to look into what reverted them.
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- Throughout the book on my ECO reader CEO is shown as Ceo, COO as Coo, and EO as Eo.
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That is
correct, sir!. In the future, the acronyms CEO, COO and EO are simply used as word-titles, like Captain, and pronounced "See-oh," "Coo" and "EE-oh." That's exactly how I wrote them. (Isn't the future cool?)
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- The phrase 'course heavy beard' occurs where the context calls for 'coarse heavy beard'
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- The phrase 'He's tough' occurs where the context calls for 'She's tough' - the conversation is about Calvin's wife.
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- A piece of luggage is described as 'autonomic', which I'm more used to seeing when discussing physiology. 'Autonomous' doesn't really work either, since the luggage is governed by a device held by its owner.
- In one of the later chapters Julian's part of a conversation is in italics for no obvious reason.
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Actually, "autonomic" is passably acceptable, if unique for the situation... it can refer to non-biologic systems. For the other comment, I need more specifics (feel free to message or e-mail me directly).
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I hope this helps, and I particularly like to know whether President?s Arrival is seen with other ePub readers.
Regards, Alex
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Anyone who's bought Verdant Skies in ePub, please feel free to speak up here. Let me know if the book is displaying differently on your reader.