……I could also, just in that one descriptive sentence in Deliverer—convert Irene to Bjorn, and make Bjorn wear that description.
When years intervene between books, alas, the brain goes to mush. Can someone e-mail me the ENTIRE passage where that description occurs, and tell me if Bjorn was ever described? I’d hate to have to correct it twice!
One thing with e-books, even for NYC, fixes are possible.
I wish ebooks in general would have a few standard things added, but I haven’t seen any standard offered.
1. A handy place on the title page or copyright page, perhaps in the navigation document / table of contents / matières for which e-edition it is. Whether it’s called a release, update, version, or revision, I suppose will get ironed out. Something like, Edition 1.02, or 2nd Edition, or simply Edition 2013-04-12. This would make it easy to find if you’re getting the most recent edition. One thing in Amazon’s favor, an ebook *can* be revised/updated and reissued at no charge and with little fuss. I presume they have a way to do this easily, even if it’s simply providing the filename unchanged. Other systems, Apple’s iBooks included, require you (the reader / customer) to delete the old ebook and download and sync the new one.
2. A standard way to identify an author’s family / last name and given names / first and middle would be good.
3. But one that really gets me is for series, from any author, printed or ebooks: It would be great if there was a way to add a group of fields such as, SeriesTitle: “Foreigner”; SeriesItem: 14; Title: “Protector”; In the case of the Foreigner series, or things like TV series, perhaps also, SeriesSeason: 5; SeriesEpisode: 2; So that these could be combined as: Foreigner 14: #5.02 Protector, by C.J. Cherryh.
The Audible.com audiobook of Protector is out! (Wow, good price, too, $4.99 US, or one credit.)
Pale- deficiency in color or intensity in color. Even dark skin can be “pale” in comparison to its normal hue when the body it covers is ill or fatigued or stressed, as after an intense new experience under stressful, even if happy, circumstances.
Just saying pale doesn’t always mean ivoried skinned.
As far as I can tell, all that really needs fixing is the paleness in Protector. For that – it’s her first time in real sunlight.
Hair? She has locks (aka dreads), and those could be any length needed.
Hey, if Niven could write Ringworld with Earth rotating backwards (and that edition still reads better than the corrected version), it’s no big deal.
WOL, I could NEVER give up my hardback books. Authors can’t sign the digital ones!!
If you’re taking proofreading suggestions, I think there’s a “Tatiseigi” that should be “Geigi” in Chapter 16. (In the eBook, it’s at location 4404, Page 310. “who had once expected to marry Tatiseigi’s nephew”.)
I don’t think Bjorn’s physical appearance was described, only that he is older than the other three.
Also, as a librarian I do tend to proofread (my first job was as ‘descriptive cataloger’ at Harvard’s Widener library, doing LC cards, over 50 years ago), and one word which the spell check is not catching in a number of the Foreigner books is ‘principle’ when ‘principal’ is meant. Not a big deal, but definitely chalk on blackboard to a compulsive proofreader, and easy to fix in the ebooks.