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Old 05-18-2010, 01:54 PM   #98
Maggie Leung
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Originally Posted by DJHARKAVY View Post
My wife is a professional proofreader/editor. She cannot read books, paper or e, without finding tons of errors that she thinks a proofer SHOULD have caught.

There are more errors in eBooks, as a function of OCR error (although that should not be the case in books printed more recently) but I rarely find enough to damage my reading experience. I can usually figure out what is meant from context and you would be amazed at how much we tend to do so automatically.
I also edit for a living. Unless I'm working, I overlook errors. Otherwise, they'd take all the fun out of reading.
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