Review: Five Star Content; One Star Production
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2013
I am dubious about making ultra fast typing a primary goal. It's better to strive for accurate typing at the highest rate you can achieve. Accurate typing eliminates the need for correcting misspellings, missing and extraneous words and other sins. It takes much less time to get it right the first time than to correct an error, time that could otherwise be spent writing.Even in this age of spell check and other helps, it takes much less time to correct an error when made than it does to find it and correct it after the document is completed. Hint: it's a lot easier to spot missing and extraneous words as you type (or edit) if you expand your font to 16 points or more.The book contains much valuable information but far too many errors in typing . Missing or extraneous words, grammatical errors, errors in word choice, - it's "lo" (not "low") and behold; it's not "couldn't seem to do", but "seemed unable to do" - and unnecessary use of objectionable language mar many pages. This kind of problem impacts not just the reading experience, but much worse, the reader's assessment of the author and publisher.Good writers simply do not permit embarrassments to make it into publication; embarrassments such as improper grammar, familiar homonyms substituted for less familiar words in quotes, plural pronouns used with singular antecedents, gutter slang- except for specific and unusual purposes, nonsense phrases like, "thought to myself", "couldn't seem to" and over long sentences.The 80 to 100 errors in this short book reflect not only the lack of a proper edit, but more importantly the kind of output that comes from valuing typing speed over accuracy. Because of that flaw and the typos, I rate this otherwise great book three stars.