Review: Annoying Levels of OCR Typos Break This Compilation
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 7, 2013
I probably have bought five different versions of Grimm's Fairy Tales for my library. although some vanished when my children began having children of their own. As often happens, I went to re-read a favorite tale, and found the book with that version in it had gone off to enthrall my grandkids in the wilds of Minnesota.So I bought a Kindle version I thought would be the same, and it does have that specific story in it. But every page of the book so far (I've read perhaps 50 of the stories randomly selected) has at least one, and often as many as 20, typos of the kind that come from dumping an uncorrected OCR read into a digital document. Most annoying are the instances in which a character's name is spelled several different ways on the same page!Yes, it was a bargain price. If I had known when I bought it that the bargain would entail this over-abundance of typos, I would have selected a different edition. I can't recommend it, unless you really can't afford better quality.