Early ,'Objects In Space'
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."
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!)
Another annoyance from the OCR job on Firestarter--when an ellipsis starts on the end of a line and ends on the next line.
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).
I actually have less issue with the prices for old books--if they came out before ebooks were around, then I can see that it would be work to get it all updated and electronic and so on. BUT, if all they're doing is scanning the thing with OCR...no. If they're actually doing a good job with it, then yes. Newer books it's more annoying--not like I think they should be free, or anything, but sometimes the prices on the paperback are CHEAPER than the ebook price, if there's a sale! Which is ridiculous.
My favorite OCR error is when the c and l get pushed together at the beginning of a word like "click".
Newer books it's more annoying--not like I think they should be free, or anything, but sometimes the prices on the paperback are CHEAPER than the ebook price, if there's a sale! Which is ridiculous.
Yes! I spent $18 (1) on a new ebook when my dad was in the hospital. The trade paperback was only a $1 more. It galled me, but since I was staying up all night, I decided I deserved a treat.
This looks interesting.
Diane Duane is celebrating being banned in Texas by extending a sale on the 9-volume Young Wizards ebooks box set: [link]
9 books for $27.99.
What the fucking fuck, Code Name Verity. Just what the fucking fuck, just kill my goddamn soul, why don't you.
Fuck everything, I'm done with literature.
I hope you weren't driving.