My Biggest Complaint: Insufficient Editing
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Re: My Biggest Complaint: Insufficient Editing
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This is exactly the way I feel as well! It doesn't matter if the sentence is grammatically correct or not. If it's unnatural or oddly-worded, it's going to catch my attention and break my concentration.Carsh_Lohal wrote:One of the things that matters the most to me when reading is how immersed I can become in the story. Whenever there are errors like this I end up jumping back to reality to re-read and try to understand what was intended, and it really detracts from the experience of reading the book.
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Or, and this is a bit tangental, maybe it is something like the uncanny valley in regards to depictions of people. You know how we can watch a disney cartoon and not have any issues imbuing the characters with realistic human emotion (this includes anthropomorphic ones as well), but the moment these cartoons start looking more and more like a human (think Beowulf with Angelina Jolie) we can only focus on how they are wrong? The closer to perfect something becomes, the more obvious the problems are. This is true with editing as well. In a well edited book, the small problems are much more glaring than a book that has massive holes in the plot.
I imagine that is exactly what a truly professional editor doesn't allow to happen, these problems that take away from the perfection. It is a rare skill, and something to be admired (and probably costs quite a bit!) I know I am not this level of perfectionist!
It makes sense to me when a low budget book, such as The Lost Identity Casualties, has some basic typos. I find them in almost every book I read, but everyone is right that they are much more prolific here. Anyway, I never seem to have any problems just glossing over them.
Perhaps this is only me being overly romantic, but I like to think of typos as me being closer to the author. The closer I am to the source, the more likely they are, and the more honest I feel the voice of the author is.
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Making sure a book is properly edited is JUST AS IMPORTANT as having a good story, and I think it's sad how many books I read (particularly books published solely as ebooks) that have many editing issues. I wish more people would appreciate how important this aspect is to the reading experience.
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