[bookshare-discuss] Re: e: Re: e: Re: wishlist
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 16:30:51 -0700 (PDT)
Don't you hate that? One of the books I validated
recently some spelling errors in the book and some
grammatical/punctuation errors. Some of these
publishing companies apparently don't have
proofreaders. I put in the long synopsis a comment
like yours when I upload a book with errors that I'm
not allowed to fix.
On the other hand, if we didn't have the book for
comparison, we'd probably correct errors like that not
realizing they were not scannos but were actually in
the book itself. Perhaps the validator will do that.
Cindy
--- Jamie Yates <jamieyates@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am uploading Guarding the Secrets right now. It
> will be on step 1 shortly. This book has numerous
> typographical errors which I left in the book. Some
> examples are:
> suprise
> possibilites
> Then's
> pentitentiary
> affadavits
> We'e (instead of we've)
> futher (instead of further)
> suppposed (instead of supposed)
>
> So please don't think I poorly scanned this book.
> I left them exactly as they are in the print
> version.
>
> Here is the description from the back cover:
> From Chapter One
> [Cliff checked his watch. It was nearly eleven,
> about the time Tina had promised to meet him. As he
> looked up, there she was, bouncing along, waving to
> him as she left Wendy's. Just before midnight the
> young couple was heading toward Tina's apartment. .
> . . As they stopped in the parking lot for Tina to
> retie her shoelace, Cliff said, "I'll walk you to
> the door."
> "No." Tina was adamant. "That's all right."
> "I'll stay then till you get into the house." Cliff
> was worried. There were no lights on in the Isa
> apartment and by this time of night her parents were
> always home from their corner grocery store.
> "Yeah, wait fifteen minutes," Tina said. "If there's
> any trouble�I'll come back out." She was afraid.
She
> had left a note on the television set in the living
> room that she had started a job and would be back
> after eleven. She had not wanted to tell her parents
> ahead of time about her job. No one in her family
> had ever worked outside the family
> store. . . .
> Tina knew that her parents would be difficult
> tonight. [Her father] Zeit, in particular, did not
> understand her dreams of being independent and
> American. To him, everything should remain as it had
> been before he had emigrated from his little village
> in the West Bank back in the early 1950s.
> As Tina walked up the steps to the apartment
> complex, Cliff watched her. His eyes followed her up
> the stairs to the landing and as she knocked on the
> door. Her mother opened it, for they had taken away
> Tina's keys weeks earlier. Turning-her head, Tina
> looked down at Cliff and smiled. He knew she could
> not wave to him with her mother standing there. If
> we catch you seeing Cliff again, we'll kill you, her
> family had screamed at Tina.
> Cliff waited. He walked down to the building to make
> certain Tina had turned the light on in her bedroom
> and was all right. He sat on the concrete steps a
> while, but the light never went on.
> He walked home. Maybe she's in the kitchen fixing
> something to eat, he thought. Or they're arguing in
> the living room. As he walked several miles to the
> bus stop on Grand Avenue, an ambulance passed him
> about one A.M.
> That stuck in his mind for years.
>
>
> Everyone needs something on ebay. When you do,
> please use my link. Thanks!
>
> Jamie in Michigan
> Currently Reading - Murder on Monday - Ann Purser
>
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