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just in case anyone thought I was serious, I wasn't.
Your post just provided me the opportunity to pretend to be hysterical about it and call for banning people (some sort of equivalent of book burnings for unworthy books?) |
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I didn't think you were serious not did I expect anyone to take mine the same way. But damn that book is riddled with errors. The funny thing is I probably only noticed it because of this thread. |
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I think 3 errors in 12 pages is too many. At that rate there may be 80 errors in the entire book.
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So they're still allowing a lot of 'defects' Good thing I'm not in charge, I wouldn't let more than 3 in any book regardless of length...
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So have I doesn't make it acceptable. 3 is my 'extreme irritation' threshold I don't care if it's indy or tradpub - typos just really, really annoy me.
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Or was it 30k? I actually did the math at one point and I think it worked out to approximately 100 words per location. Note this is on self-published books. If anyone is interested "The Hobbit has 4237 locations. |
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Atlas Shrugged which is around 645,000 words is 27682 locations. That comes out to 23.3 words per location. So your math was spot on and mine was a bit off. |
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