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HarryT · 10-02-2009, 04:14 AM

Hi Gareth,

I have a lot of experience in proof-reading books, and believe me, you cannot properly proof-read a book in an hour

. The only way to proof-read is to compare the original book and the electronic text, side by side, and look at every word, every punctuation mark, etc. I am currently undertaking the mammoth task of proof-reading all the Charles Dickens books that I've created and uploaded here at MobileRead. I'm currently nearing the end of "David Copperfield", a book which I started proof-reading two months ago, and have spend approximely 2 hours a day on, 7 days a week, since then. That's about 120 hours of work to proof-read one book, and it's still not finished.

Proper proof-reading is enormously "labour intensive", and there aren't any shortcuts.

PLEASE don't use text format for your scanned books; you'll lose all the formatting, which adds so much to the book. Some "rich" format such as HTML will be enormously better.

10-02-2009, 04:14 AM	#25
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,557 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Hi Gareth, I have a lot of experience in proof-reading books, and believe me, you cannot properly proof-read a book in an hour . The only way to proof-read is to compare the original book and the electronic text, side by side, and look at every word, every punctuation mark, etc. I am currently undertaking the mammoth task of proof-reading all the Charles Dickens books that I've created and uploaded here at MobileRead. I'm currently nearing the end of "David Copperfield", a book which I started proof-reading two months ago, and have spend approximely 2 hours a day on, 7 days a week, since then. That's about 120 hours of work to proof-read one book, and it's still not finished. Proper proof-reading is enormously "labour intensive", and there aren't any shortcuts. PLEASE don't use text format for your scanned books; you'll lose all the formatting, which adds so much to the book. Some "rich" format such as HTML will be enormously better.