> I've _never_ read an ebook w/o finding at least one typo

This is unacceptable. Typo's are not just aggravating but as they accumulate they begin to veer towards mutating the authors original intent.

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WillAdams 3 days ago | parent [-]

Unfortunately, ebooks as a technology are young, and editors aren't paid as much as they used to be --- if they're being employed to review books at all in some cases.

Don't get me started on the typos in Lost Art Press's _Virtuoso: The Tool Cabinet and Workbench of Henry O. Studley_ --- they mis-spelled the subject's name on the inside cover and duplicated one photo, so a pair of flat pliers is shown twice and there is not detail photo of the iconic twin pair of jeweler's pliers, and didn't do a "cancel" reprinting that page as any reputable publisher would.

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jasonmarks_ 3 days ago | parent [-]

> Don't get me started on the typos in Lost Art Press's _Virtuoso: The Tool Cabinet and Workbench of Henry O. Studley_ --- they mis-spelled the subject's name on the inside cover and duplicated one photo, so a pair of flat pliers is shown twice and there is not detail photo of the iconic twin pair of jeweler's pliers, and didn't do a "cancel" reprinting that page as any reputable publisher would.

I am not familiar with those books or their content but that definitely reads as if the intent has been substantially changed. A typo 100 years ago might have been a letter off in the type setter; the typos these days are rewrites!

	▲	WillAdams 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		They aren't that serious (if you search for my name and "Virtuoso" the list of typos I found should pop right up. There are so many, that I've come to assume that the wrong set of files was used for printing.