Re: Aftermarket Afterlife by seanan McGuire

In article <vd6muk$ppn9$2@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/27/2024 11:44 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <najdfjpbi9ksltddhki9cid8ikp2o0jjle@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

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Many (most) older books have errors in Kindle editions. You are quite
correct about the cause: lack of proof-reading.
>

 
I read a copy of Fredric Brown's _The Screaming Mimi_ where every instance
of 'gun' was rendered as 'bun'.

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My favorite is a text-to-speech app that tries to expand abbreviations.
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One buxom lady was voiced as having 'Doctor of Divinity breasts'.
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pt

Kindle-to-voice does that on one of Lindsay Buroker's favorite convesational
fillers 'Hm.'  It renders it as 'hectameters', which given the initial
setting I heard it in, I figured was an engineer's mild swear.
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