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The Inconvenient Duchess (The Radwells #1)
by Christine Merrill (Goodreads Author)
by Christine Merrill (Goodreads Author)
Got this as a free PDF download from Harlequin a bit over a month ago. One of the joys in my life is error-spotting. So I read this in neuNotes on the iPad and carefully noted each OCR error as it appeared, almost one every chapter, and early on in the chapter. By cataloguing them I rendered them unable to annoy the crap out of me - I just marked and moved on.
OCR issues aside I enjoyed this book a lot. It's not too jarringly anachronistic and the characters have a bit of depth and backbone. It is a Cinderella story, so be warned if you are approaching your limit of virtuous heroines downtrodden in life who somehow strike it lucky and yet still manage to be a martyr to thrift and propriety for some time after said lucky strike.
Having now read this and Doukakis's Apprentice and I Love The Earl in short succession, for my next foray into romance I think I'd like to read about a less industrious heroine in a story with more biting sarcasm and sharp wit. I think I'm suffering a snark deficiency. I'll let you know how I go.
OCR issues aside I enjoyed this book a lot. It's not too jarringly anachronistic and the characters have a bit of depth and backbone. It is a Cinderella story, so be warned if you are approaching your limit of virtuous heroines downtrodden in life who somehow strike it lucky and yet still manage to be a martyr to thrift and propriety for some time after said lucky strike.
Having now read this and Doukakis's Apprentice and I Love The Earl in short succession, for my next foray into romance I think I'd like to read about a less industrious heroine in a story with more biting sarcasm and sharp wit. I think I'm suffering a snark deficiency. I'll let you know how I go.
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Sep 08, 2012 09:14pm
What do you mean by OCR errors?
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Trudy wrote: "What do you mean by OCR errors?"OCR is optical character recognition. For some reason most ebooks are scanned copies of the printed book, and they use OCR to turn the pictures of the pages into a text file. In the ebook version I was reading the second or third paragraph of some chapters was missing the last letter and full stop of the last sentence, plus some other random letters were missing throughout the rest of the book.
Ms_prue wrote: "Trudy wrote: "What do you mean by OCR errors?"OCR is optical character recognition. For some reason most ebooks are scanned copies of the printed book, and they use OCR to turn the pictures of th..."
Thanks. I've often wondered why e-books have so many strange errors. Of course, they can also have other grating errors that can't be explained by OCR glitches, such as interchanging then and than or using subjective pronouns where objective ones are called for!
