[bksvol-discuss] Re: The job of a proofreader is...
- From: Tim Syfert <goodproofing2010@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:26:11 -0700 (PDT)
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.
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From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.
-- Ann K. Parsons
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