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Yeah, I'm not sure if this is true, but I have the impression the error rates have increased in the last decades, despite spell-check becoming more effective at
by carlmr 7y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure if this is true, but I have the impression the error rates have increased in the last decades, despite spell-check becoming more effective at finding them at low cost.
- jfk13 7y agoMost publishers seam too have decided its knot worth employing copy-editors any moor.
- thrower123 7y agoThere are some publishers I won't even buy books from anymore, because I've paid too much money for books that are so rife with typos and nonsense that it was clear that it never even touched the inbox of an editor or a proofreader.
- __s 7y agoI recently read all of Philip K Dick's novels. Spotted typos in every book. I log typos in my goodreads reviews In the past it wasn't even the author's fault necessarily. The worst case of this was an anthology of Ursula Leguin, "Five Complete Novels" where I quit recording the typos as there would be multiple per page
- RandomBacon 7y agoIf the typos are in a legitimate eBook copy, it's because sometimes the people who make the eBook don't have the source file(s), and instead have to OCR a printed book. If the typos are in the printed book, that's bad.