[bksvol-discuss] Re: The job of a proofreader is...

  • From: Chela Robles <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:42:51 -0700

I couldn't have said it better myself. I'd never do that to any of you. Must be one of those new jiffy proofers who don't really care...just want the credit for speed and sloppiness which should not be commendable!


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On 4/20/2012 6:37 AM, Kim Loftis wrote:
I absolutely agree. Being thorough in one's proofing is of the utmost importance. I read every word of the books I proof, so that I can be assured that I've done my very best as a proofreader. That makes me very proud. Obviously, we all make mistakes once in a while, missing an error or two perhaps, but pages upon pages of such errors, and books riddled with them, are inexcusable.
Kim

*From:* Tim Syfert <mailto:goodproofing2010@xxxxxxxxx>
*Sent:* Friday, April 20, 2012 9:26 AM
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*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: The job of a proofreader is...

As a proofer, I always read as I proof and remove the scannos I find. A proofer should always do this; otherwise, they have no business proofing! That book shouldn't have been put in the collection.

*From:* Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>
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*Sent:* Friday, April 20, 2012 8:14 AM
*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] The job of a proofreader is...

Hi all,

I'm writing because I just sent off a quality report about a book I'm reading. Oh, I'm going to finish the book, it's part of a series I'm reading, but I have a really hard and knotty question to ask volunteers.

Here it is, folks. Is it the job of a proofer to actually *read* a book, or can a proofer get away with checking title and so on, and then just pushing the book through?

If you answered that you thought you could get away with just checking metadata, you'd be wrong, wrong three times over. This book I'm reading, Divided Allegiance by Elizabeth Moon, has a wonderful title page and front piece. Then, I started actually *reading* the blessed thing. Well, I wasn't reading it, my DTBM was. Anyway, this book's quality was only good. There were a million scanos including the mangling of the main character's name. Do you know how aggravating it can be when your main character, mentioned about ten times per page has her name mangled five out of those ten times? Scannos like 'ff' for 'if' and garbage chars at the end of pages.

<frowning darkly> There is no excuse for this kind of sloppiness. Why do you think it takes me weeks to proof a book? It's because I actually read every, single, word in the whole blessed book! I have allowed a book to be sent up after reading half or so of it, but only once. That was because the scanner was known to me, the book I had read so far had been aeror free, and I knew that the quality would be the same throughout! If I proof, I read. All this stuff could have been easily fixed! <grrrrr> Sorry for ranting guys, but I devoutly hope that my rant has stopped any lazy proofers in their tracks and caused them to reexamine their work.

Ann P.

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