Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): wordperfect
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I hope not, or I withdraw my DPL offer.
Tried it once or twice, and it was not a good experience.
For something of a specialized nature, I might try it, but not with a long book like this.
I have always asked for a word perfect DPL and was always satisfied with the results. However, there are spots in this novel where the author's copy editor fell asleep, and it's easy to fix such blunders, so do please stay on board, silverquill.
will you be doing the cover for this book as well?
libraryanne wrote: ↑August 13th, 2019, 9:15 am
If Silverquill still declines to be DPL, I volunteer as DPL. However if silverquill changes his mind and wants to do it I'll gladly back away.
Chapter 4 has been uploaded. Here is a sample of why less than word perfect PLing may be useful. At one point in this chapter the narrator describes shooting above the hostile warriors, quadrupeds which are running on all fours. It is certain that they are not standing erect, and yet the narrator reports shooting "over their hands." That would mean somewhere around their shin-bones. Naw! "Hands" and "heads" are similar enough that the type-setter may have confused the words and then the proof-reader confused them back again. I read "heads." Availle, if you disapprove, I will restore "hands," but this piece of fiction seems to me such a trifle that I can hardly imagine anyone's using my reading in any scholarly pursuit.
That's fine Tom - it's an obvious error and it's perfectly okay to correct those. I'm sure Betty has seen enough of these errors in her long service as DPL that she won't be mentioning them even in wordperfect PLing.
Cheers, Ava.
Resident witch of LibriVox, channelling
Granny Weatherwax: "I ain't Nice."
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At 13:04 “another” is very soft in this sentence:
“..he said, “what I have never told another; but on the condition that if you retell it you are not to use my name.”
