Gordon was one of the times I had to just walk away from the book for a little while. Not quite needing the freezer, but close.
So much about Tanith in this one broke my heart.
Now we're saving a vampire from vampires. I got two words for that -- Nuh and uh.
Gunn ,'Underneath'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
-t - Sep 28, 2014 5:10:21 pm PDT #22729 of 28343
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Polter-Cow - Sep 28, 2014 5:34:15 pm PDT #22730 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Geez, more like Skulduggery Unpleasant, am I right.
Now I'm really interested in reading them. How many are there? Are they long?
Steph L. - Sep 28, 2014 5:58:52 pm PDT #22731 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
There are 9, and they get longer through the series, the way the Harry Potter books did.
tommyrot - Sep 29, 2014 5:14:50 am PDT #22732 of 28343
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm rereading Stephen King's Firestarter, which I read once before about 31 years ago. (Damn, I'm getting old.) I lost my copy so I got the kindle version to read on my iPad. I've noticed some typos that I'm assuming were a result of OCR errors--'car' becomes 'can', no space between an italicized word and the following word--stuff like that.
I've seen other Kindleized old books with many more problems, but for some reason on Firestarter it annoys me more--it's a Stephen King book! From a major publisher!
OK, it's not a big deal, but is this common in digitized old books? Are they skimping on proofreading? Or would it just take took much proofreading to catch all these errors?
Dana - Sep 29, 2014 5:16:37 am PDT #22733 of 28343
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It's common in ebooks I've seen.
Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2014 5:37:41 am PDT #22734 of 28343
brillig
Yeah, I think they're running their old copy proofs through optical text readers to digitize them and not worrying about it. Just getting digital content out there.
tommyrot - Sep 29, 2014 5:40:31 am PDT #22735 of 28343
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah, I think they're running their old copy proofs through optical text readers to digitize them and not worrying about it. Just getting digital content out there.
That makes sense. A simple spell-check would flag most cases where an italicized word and the following word have no space between them.
meara - Sep 29, 2014 6:31:41 am PDT #22736 of 28343
That makes sense. A simple spell-check would flag most cases where an italicized word and the following word have no space between them.
That's what bugs me! They tend to charge just as much as they would for a new book, but it's often a slap-dash job! (Though in some ways it bothers me less than the books that have issues with homophones that either an editor didn't catch or that never got edited at all...TAUGHT and TAUT are not the same thing!)
tommyrot - Sep 29, 2014 6:50:45 am PDT #22737 of 28343
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Another annoyance from the OCR job on Firestarter--when an ellipsis starts on the end of a line and ends on the next line.
Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2014 6:52:29 am PDT #22738 of 28343
brillig
The prices of newly created ebooks from old editions also annoys the heck out of me. It makes one contemplate other options that would appeal to Many Times Great-Grandpa Murat Reis (with apologies to the village of Baltimore in Ireland, whose inhabitants were captured and sold into slavery in Morocco by said Grandpa).