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I've come across a number of Kindle eBooks with numerous typos or other errors. It's like they simply OCR'd a printed book and didn't bother to check for issues
by reaganing 15y ago
I've come across a number of Kindle eBooks with numerous typos or other errors. It's like they simply OCR'd a printed book and didn't bother to check for issues ('Too Big to Fail' by Andrew Ross Sorkin is the most egregious I've bought).
Many of these books are eventually corrected and Amazon will email letting you know this so you can get an updated copy, but this has generally been months, or years[1], after I've put up with the problems and finished reading the book.
And it would be nice if pictures were handled better. I think ideally they should all be put at the end of the eBook but have links in the text that take you to the relevant picture, so you can quickly look at it and hit "back" to go back to the text where you left of.
[1]: Just this morning, I got an email from Amazon telling me a book I purchased in May 2009 has been updated with corrections.
- dfc 15y agoYour suggestion to put images at the end creates the same problem that footnotes do. Namely it breaks sync to last page read. The author of the linked post laments this very problem.