LOTR ebook erratum and ebook quality

[Hellmark]

Originally Posted by Quexos

Ok I just stumbled by pure chance on what can be a big one. This one definitely needs to be checked with a print version. The candidate error is always the same, it's "O yes" which should normally be "Oh yes"
there are 19 instances of this error (if it is an error of course)

Actually "O" is a distinct word, (always capitalized) acts as an intro for a noun in the vocative case, where as "oh" is an interjection. For example, "O Holy Night". It really isn't used anymore though, but is common in religious texts and other writings up through the renaissance.

If it were to be using "oh", the proper way for the sentence to be structured is "Oh, yes." The comma is required, showing the use of an interjection.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

I just tried to re-download my LIT copy to check over from Fictionwise and get an error. I suppose because they don't sell it anymore since the Agency deal?

It could also be because maybe the LIT format version is no longer available. LIT seems to be dead.

Originally Posted by John the Miner

As somebody or other once said, "Methinks the lady doth protest too much" ... wish I could remember who it was.
Maybe AprilHare can enlighten us?

Player Queen:
Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife,
If once I be a widow, ever I be a wife!

Player King:
'Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here a while,
My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile
The tedious day with sleep.

Player Queen:
Sleep rock thy brain,
And never come mischance between us twain!

Hamlet:
Madam, how like you this play?

Queen:
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by wodin

I just finished it in ePub from B&N, I noticed a quite a few hyphenation problems. Mostly where the hyphens were retained even though re-formatting moved the hyphenated word to the middle of the line. But then I’ve learned to pretty much ignore those because so many ebooks suffer from that particular malady.

Chances are when you have an issue like hyphens in the middle of words that the source for the conversion is PDF. And I've seen other errors due to PDF sourced eBooks. The first three eBooks in the Sookie Stackhouse series all had a problem with italics and all were PDF sourced.

Originally Posted by AprilHare

Please do not imply I did not pay for this ebook. I did.

I don't think it was implied that you did not buy the Lord of the Rings 3-in-1. It was more of his versions (the 1-in-1) did not have the errors. I double checked and the 3-in-1 has the errors you listed and the 1-in-1 does not.

[JSWolf]

April, would you mind editing your first post in this thread with all the newer found errors please?

[BookCat]

John The Miner is most definitely trolling.

Please don't take this wrongly, but when I saw the post at the beginning of the thread, my immediate thought was: "some pirate versions would be better than that!" and I was disgusted that a mainstream ebook publisher could make such errors.

I'm not suggesting you pirated the book.
I have occasionally dressed up thus

and most books from the dark side are reasonable.

I'm not advocating piracy, just saying that if pirates can get it right, why can't more trustworthy sources of ebooks?

[JSWolf]

Is it possible that the publisher fixed the errors in the 1-in-1 and forgot to fix up the 3-in-1?

[Quexos]

How can a reputed professional publishing company just forget to fix errors in a book as important as The Lord of the Rings ?
I am discombobulated by your inferring.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Is it possible that the publisher fixed the errors in the 1-in-1 and forgot to fix up the 3-in-1?

[CallOfCth'reader]

Originally Posted by Quexos

How can a reputed professional publishing company just forget to fix errors in a book as important as The Lord of the Rings ?
I am discombobulated by your inferring.

By "forget", do you mean "can't be bothered"?

[AprilHare]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

April, would you mind editing your first post in this thread with all the newer found errors please?

I thought I did I haven't finished yet though. There may be more to come.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quexos

How can a reputed professional publishing company just forget to fix errors in a book as important as The Lord of the Rings ?
I am discombobulated by your inferring.

Can you explain why the listed errors are not in the 1-in-1 but are in the 3-1-in?

[elcreative]

Easy, they are separate editions... one was not produced in e-form from the other hence separately proofread (or not as the case may be) probably by different people with differing results plus the current all-in-one comes from the 50th Anniversary edition which was very closely proofread and error corrected (from Tolkien's own notes) to clear up problems from the first printing...

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Can you explain why the listed errors are not in the 1-in-1 but are in the 3-1-in?

[John the Miner]

MJK2111, I'm afraid, so terribly, terribly afraid, that you're 100% wrong.

[Quexos]

hmm It must be the publisher that forgot to fix the errors in the 3-in-one version.
I am outraged by that. I think I'm going to walk out of my place and punch someone in the face randomly. It won't fix anything but I'll feel better.

PS: If I'm not back soon I'm probably at the hospital from the wounds I will sustain from my encounter with that random person disagreeing with my trying-to-feel-better endeavor.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Can you explain why the listed errors are not in the 1-in-1 but are in the 3-1-in?

[JSWolf]

What's with the AOL style top posting? It looks awful and is awful.

[AprilHare]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What's with the AOL style top posting? It looks awful and is awful.

I'm mystified. AOL style? What's that? We never caught onto AOL here so no idea..