Reporting Typos Should Be Easy

I am reading a lot on kindle these days. I live in Asia and access to good resources is not good. So when I finally had a friend from America bring me a kindle it was a lifesaver. The more I have been reading the more I have seen typos in books. No big deal. Kindle makes it extremely simple to highlight and report a type and then correct it. I probably do it 1-2x per week and it takes no more than 10-15 seconds.

Here on Logos though… I notice a typo and I don't even know how to report a typo. The first time the error was so confusing I reached out to the technical support worker and they walked me through it. I reported it then shortly after found another one, a minor one. I couldn't remember how to report the type because it is so burdensome and takes me away from the content that I am studying.

So my suggestion is to make a very simple addition to the page where we highlight words with colours that says, "report type". Click it and input what the type should be.

I simply don't report errors in content or typos because Logos makes it challenging to do so. The kindle process is so simple to use I don't see why that type of reporting system can't be implemented here.

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DMB

Hmmm … I thought I could quickly locate report-a-typo, but not. I gave up. Used to be easy (though desktop only).

NB.Mick

I think it's extremely easy, just right-click to open the context menu (or click from the selection menu into the context menu, whatever floats your boat), go down to the very last entry, report typo. One of both menus gets opened quite a bit fo me, since I markup a lot.

Regarding your example with simply marking a specific color standing for "this is a typo": I tend to find typos / resource bugs that are not immediately obvious, so I like the correction suggestion line and the possibility (good that it is optional!) to give more context. The good thing about a markup would be that we could see which typos have been reported (and potentially also see which have been cleared, but that would require us making markups that Logos can change, otherwise the fixed portion of the text would still carry that markup.

DMB

I did that: nada.

NB.Mick

If you try this in a bible, you might have another view open, such as Reference - report typo works in the Selection part .

NB: on Android mobile you select text and scroll the bullets in the context menu all to the right, there's report typo (if activated in the settings), owever that's not yet available on iOS

NichtnurBibelleser

Still, you can't report typos within footnotes. You can only select something in the main text and you have to spell out the error in the footnote.

Dr. Nathan Parker

Desktop only. This is one feature I really want to see in the mobile app as I generally find 99% of my typos there.

This was one feature I liked about the app where I used to work. ;-)

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1387043#Comment_1387043

As I wrote earlier, it works on mobile, provided you use the right kind of device.

Dr. Nathan Parker

Thanks! I have the wrong kind of device. I'm what my friends call, the "Apple snob". :-)

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