As someone may have explained; the em dash indicates a pause in
thought between 2 phrases or ideas; similar to but different from
elipses. There should be a space before and after the em dash so the
words don't run together; if you have a book in which that's not the
case you should report it to quality control so the book can be fxed
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:16 PM, <ohio1803@xxxxx
<mailto:ohio1803@xxxxx>> wrote:
*You folks are amazing. I really appreciate how hard you all work.*
*I appreciated reading the posts on this thread. How important
and serious this business. To make all of our reading material
just as fine as it can be.*
*Thank you!*
**
*I have not tried to proofread a submitted book for quite some
time.*
*I am still baffled and confused by it all, and have just
continued to do the best job I can in scanning some books that I
want to read, and to prepare the book in the best condition that
I can, based largely in part as to what I understand is best for
acceptance the proofreader’ time.*
**
*This thread showed me I think that it is still best to move
page numbers to the top of the page. *
*As to the m dash, I have never done anything with them, but had
wondered what was to be done. I do find them often an irritant *
*to the reading experience, hearing the words running together,
sometimes to even make it hard to understand the words.*
**
*Thanks again.*
*Rik*
