Typos & Today's Blog

First off, thank you Logos for periodically fixing typos and especially Anchor which is my favorite. Both reflect on a great company.

Now that said (and I'd put this on the blog page, but I think it bounces over here), I'm always curious how typos actually occur. Both already published books, and especially CPs.

My understanding from Bob, was they made 2 passes and then presumably picked up any differences. But I've seen both recent published books (likely already typed in but clearly being typed in again), and CPs where the typos are clearly typos (usually a letter right next to the correct letter on a keyboard, or an 'e' confused with a 'c' type of errors).

Frankly I really don't care that much; I'd far rather get a few typos and quicker access to the resource. And my Libronix books are chock full, but I'm discussing the Logos4 variety.

Only since the blog brings up the subject, I'm just curious.

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Bethany Wilson

http://blog.logos.com/2012/05/behind-the-scenes-what-happens-when-your-book-gets-updated/

Thanks for the heads up, DMB - I hadn't read that post.

fgh

I'd far rather get a few typos and quicker access to the resource

If it was just a question of reading, I'd agree with you. The problem is that a Logos resource is supposed to be more than just any e-book. It's supposed to work in searches. And a 'c' instead of an 'e' is all that it takes to make you miss that one search result that would have given you exactly what you needed. Hence Logos books need to be more correct than paper books, not less.

Michael Kinch

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/366012#Comment_366012

I'd far rather get a few typos and quicker access to the resource

If it was just a question of reading, I'd agree with you. The problem is that a Logos resource is supposed to be more than just any e-book. It's supposed to work in searches. And a 'c' instead of an 'e' is all that it takes to make you miss that one search result that would have given you exactly what you needed. Hence Logos books need to be more correct than paper books, not less.

fgh - I agree completely. It has surprised me the number of errors in some of the books I have read through. When I came across some of the errors I have wondered if anyone actually read the books before publishing.

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/366063#Comment_366063

fgh ... you're right ... much of my reading is just 'reading', so it's a nuisance but not critical. And to be honest, I use the 'find' to do in-text searches to avoid the problem. I usually know where to begin the search; the 10,000 results in .5 seconds doesn't do much for me.

And as one can probably surmise from my question, I just don't have a lot of confidence in the assurances coming from the company. Something doesn't add up (again).

To the point, it seems the initial keying methods are absolutely critical; as the blog discusses, catching errors later in a multi-language world is very difficult.