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rabidpiano86 OP t1_itm1xy8 wrote

Reply to comment by CerebralBypass in Are typos supposed to be so common in books? Or am I just ending up getting poorly edited ones? by rabidpiano86

Very interesting! Thanks for the quick reply. For some reason I thought published books would be perfect in spelling and grammar 🤣

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Tanagrabelle t1_itmak3j wrote

In theory there are not many typos. But hoo boy have I read some books. I even got into it with an author, once. It turned out when they were shopping around for editors, they were being quoted $4000. And I couldn’t decide if the editors were trying to rip them off, or just looked at the sheer… OK it was really, really, really bad. so many typos. Occasional randomly capitalized words. I just, I just couldn’t.

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camplate t1_itmsbvh wrote

I read a self published book; so many error especially with apostrophes. It would say he 'd or ins 't and a few isnt'
I'm a bad speller and a two finger typist. I'm grateful for reddit and others having spell check. But when users have the tools, and still misspell?

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