I am a voracious reader. When I start a book, I tend to finish it quickly. Since I got my NookColor for Christmas (I actually bought it for myself around Thanksgiving, and wrapped the empty box) I've been consuming mass amounts of literature even more. It's a good addiction to have, as far as I'm concerned. As long as my family doesn't mind late dinners, frequent "Shhh! I only have ten pages left!" and other varied neglected household chores (I actually forgot to pay the bills one week I was so wrapped up in "Pillars of the Earth").
Anyways, I am in love with my NookColor -- BUT...
And this is a big BUT...
I am getting increasingly frustrated with the poor quality of the digitalization of these books.
I have come across several novels that have repeat words, typos (usually punctuation substitutions, like quotes instead of commas, and what have you), screwy margins and some that even have empty pages, missing text and pages with only one paragraph on them.
Do none of these companies ever actually flip through each page of their digitized book to make sure it's up to par before they release it out into the marketplace?
From the crap I've seen, I'd say no.
And just to show how I'm not exaggerating, I'm going to list the ones that have had errors in them.
"Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
"North & South" by Elizabeth Gaskell
"The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafron
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold
And I'm sure there's more I can't think of at the moment but these were the ones that had irritated me the most.
DEAR E-PUBLISHERS,
DO BETTER.
THANK YOU
Anyways, I am in love with my NookColor -- BUT...
And this is a big BUT...
I am getting increasingly frustrated with the poor quality of the digitalization of these books.
I have come across several novels that have repeat words, typos (usually punctuation substitutions, like quotes instead of commas, and what have you), screwy margins and some that even have empty pages, missing text and pages with only one paragraph on them.
Do none of these companies ever actually flip through each page of their digitized book to make sure it's up to par before they release it out into the marketplace?
From the crap I've seen, I'd say no.
And just to show how I'm not exaggerating, I'm going to list the ones that have had errors in them.
"Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
"North & South" by Elizabeth Gaskell
"The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafron
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold
And I'm sure there's more I can't think of at the moment but these were the ones that had irritated me the most.
DEAR E-PUBLISHERS,
DO BETTER.
THANK YOU
This has also been driving me crazy about my Nook. I had to completely stop reading one book because there was some strange formatting that turned every punctuation mark in to an S and another book that had no spacing at all after every period. I don't think I have found a single book that doesn't have some sort of mistake in it (and I have read over 70 on my Nook).
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