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I bought my first Heralds of Valdemar books 20 years ago, I still have some of them, and have recently been replacing them with Kindle versions, as my kids are entering their teens. I would like for my kids to read them and be influenced by the values these characters display.

Unfortunately, I have been disappointed over and over again by the number of typos in the kindle versions of these books. The best explanation I can come up with, is that some one used an OCR scanner on the original manuscript and then didn't read this version or spell check it. Merc - short for mercenary is almost always "mere". And that is one of the easier misspellings to decode. Frequently a word will end have an 'm' instead of 'rn'. There are too many other misspellings to list, and now I am running into incidences of "gobbledygook" that I can't decode.

How am I supposed to encourage my kids to read these books when the misspelling frequently ruins the context and flow of the story? I am very disappointed and hope that an edited/ update will be released soon.

So far I have found these problems in the first 3 trilogies.


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Winds of Fate The Mage Winds Book 1 Mercedes Lackey 9780886775162 Books Reviews

This is a hard rating to set because, while the story is good, the edition is the worst copy-edited piece of crap I have seen outside of a high-schooler's self-published grand opus.

First, the story. This is part of her Valdemar series and is a slight departure from the brand up to this point. This is the first story, after By the Sword to blend the two parts of the universe together. It follows two distinct plot and narrative voices that are completely disconnected until the end of the novel. That is not the usual Valemar narrative approach up to this point, so that's a bit of a welcome change.

The story itself follows the standard formula our hero(s) set off to fix The Thing that's wrong, face myriad difficulties, not the least of which springs from character flaws, and then they fix The Thing at the end (or at least, enough so that there is a satisfying resolution that can lead to the next story in the trilogy). I'm making light of this, but the formula works. Lackey does a great job wiht characters, they have flaws we can all relate to, and they are generally good people doing their best. It's a great way to spend ones time, hanging out with people that you'd actually like to meet in real life.

But the text! I'm shocked and appalled at how badly this has been ported over to . I had owned the paper back when it first came out and decided I wanted to revisit some "old friends" and have had, at times, trouble reading it. Text is very important in this story, because the author uses italics to indicate a specific communication method or language used. This book screws up the italics often, inserts random italics and bold text, has poorly placed hyphens, line breaks, and other formatting. DAW should be ashamed of charging money for this and Lackey should demand that they stop having her books remind people of sloppy self-publishing efforts. And should seriously consider strong-arming DAW to quit putting out such a poor example of what e-text can be.

Note the next book in the series is little better from a textual standpoint.
Don’t buy this series in the edition if you have not read it before. I’m having trouble reading the electronic version and I have read the Mage Winds trilogy many times. There are many transcription errors. A word is misspelled this way on one page and that way on another. I am talking about names of locations and people; words that are important to the story. The sibilant griffon talk is over corrected to the point where it makes no sense. It is as if the book was scanned from a blurred paper copy and then auto-corrected. Great series. Lousy ebook. 5 Star series. 1 Star edition.
4.5 stars. I've loved this book (and trilogy) since I first read them in the 90's and I still love them now. The only annoyance I have is the ebook formatting. It is horrible at times. Words that should be italicized aren't, and words that shouldn't be italicized are. There are random bold words. Sometimes names are spelled incorrectly and at times the trilled "R's" of the gryphons' speech are turned into "M's".

But again, the story itself is perfectly fine. The ebook formatting is at times really bad. It's strange, too, because "The Last Herald-Mage" ebooks didn't have these formatting issues.
I bought my first Heralds of Valdemar books 20 years ago, I still have some of them, and have recently been replacing them with versions, as my kids are entering their teens. I would like for my kids to read them and be influenced by the values these characters display.

Unfortunately, I have been disappointed over and over again by the number of typos in the kindle versions of these books. The best explanation I can come up with, is that some one used an OCR scanner on the original manuscript and then didn't read this version or spell check it. Merc - short for mercenary is almost always "mere". And that is one of the easier misspellings to decode. Frequently a word will end have an 'm' instead of 'rn'. There are too many other misspellings to list, and now I am running into incidences of "gobbledygook" that I can't decode.

How am I supposed to encourage my kids to read these books when the misspelling frequently ruins the context and flow of the story? I am very disappointed and hope that an edited/ update will be released soon.

So far I have found these problems in the first 3 trilogies.