Comments on: Lost in the Digital Conversion?

By: Natalie J. Damschroder

Natalie J. Damschroder — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:29:02 +0000

The e-books I’ve read so far have inconsistent italicizing so that I can’t tell when it got lost in the passages that OBVIOUSLY were supposed to be in italics, by authors I KNOW would have done it right. But it hasn’t been bad enough to damage my enjoyment of the books.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:30:53 +0000

Karen, I haven’t had words changed. That would make my head explode, rather than just throb the way lost italics do!

Annmarie, stop talking about M&Ms! I’m trying to diet.

I know, Charli, which is why I think I cling so much to what I thought I could control—the words. But no italics? *sniffle*

Rae, you’re buying the ePub from Harlequin, not the PDF, for the Sony, right? You still have to wash them through Adobe Digital Editions (suckage!) but they don’t have the teeny font & wonky magnification that the PDFs do.

By: Heather Rae Scott

Heather Rae Scott — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:25:16 +0000

This is why I wish someone would come up with a universal way to do this so that the format stays as written. I think someone will eventually figure out a way–I mean look at technology. Oh and it’ll probably be a pimple-faced fourteen year old kid. It makes me sad now to realize I could be missing something as a reader, or worse that someone out there is scratching their head at something I wrote. Especially since I finally got an ereader and have already experienced the whole panic of converting only to realize I didn’t have too. But there are some books that come up on the Sony as teeny tiny print. When I up it, then it’s annoying too large and I feel like the lapse in turning the pages is even longer than what it normally is. I guess the saying is true, “Technology is great…when it’s working!”

Karen, I’m hearing more and more of what you speak. I don’t think it’s right at all. A lot of people are also saying their voices are being over-edited. Again, not a fair thing to do to someone IMHO.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:18:54 +0000

The list of things beyond an author’s control are long. I try not to think about them too much.

By: Annmarie

Annmarie — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:31:02 +0000

I would need a bag of M&M’s STAT.

That has to totally suck.

By: Karen Templeton

Karen Templeton — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:36:28 +0000

I truly feel your pain. Because that would make me foaming-at-the-mouth crazy, too.

Stuff like that happens in print, too: Words changed without my knowledge/permission, typos inserted where there were none before, stets to (in my mind) awkwardly reworded passages disallowed. Sigh. One reason I don’t even look at my books once they’re in print, unless I have to look up eye color or something for a subsequent book and don’t feel like trolling through the Word file.

But I cringe. Oh, do I cringe.