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Side By Side: How The Kindle Stacks Up

jdeleon1979 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:39:02 +0000

Typoze’s reigning typo hunter, Deletia, shares her thoughts on the Kindle.

I’ve been reading with my Kindle for about a month now, so I’m becoming familiar with its
strengths and weaknesses. I enjoy having it, and it’s easy to use. I’m already substituting it for many paper books. The e-book is more portable than an average print edition, and instead of one book, I have a variety of options with me anywhere I might have spare time to read. The ”e-ink” is visually similar to printed text. It’s convenient not to hold the book open while reading, and it’s fun & informative to be able to touch any word for a second to pop up the definition from the onboard dictionary. There’s quite a large selection of free and very cheap reading material, and most books will let you download the first chapter or two as a free trial. I lik sampling various authors. I also enjoy the various free word games which are available.

Paper books still have some advantages. They’re easier to flip back and forth in, if you’re not doing the traditional beginning-to-end read-through, and it’s much easier to have two printed books open and look back and forth between them (for example, reading a Bible commentary and looking up the referenced verses). The Kindle can only open one book at a time, so to switch to another, you must go back to the home menu and open the other book while trying to remember which chapter and verse you were looking for. Also, print versions of books are less vulnerable to being dropped, sat on, spilled on, chewed on by small children, or left in baking hot or freezing cold vehicles. If you absentmindedly leave a paper book lying around somewhere, it will probably be there when you come back for it. Your luck may not be so good doing the same thing with a Kindle. Print books are more reusable, too; after you read one, you can lend it to a friend, donate it to a library or thrift store, or re-sell it to recoup some of the cost. E-books can be loaned to a friend (who must, of course, own the same brand of e-book as yourself) one time only…not very transferable. On the plus side, if you lose or break or upgrade your e-book, your purchases remain safely stored online to be re-downloaded for free.

So, generally I am enjoying my new Kindle a lot, but there will always be a special place on my shelf for real books, too. After all, it’s a lot easier to start a fire with a real book…Just kidding, books–love ya!

Spot that typo!

brandon_kim — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:51:09 +0000

For anyone that watched the GOP debate a couple of weeks ago may have noticed something.

Spot that typo!

brandon_kim — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:56:44 +0000

Thanks to Typoze member Deletia for spotting this error.

Can you spot the error?

Nightmare On Pacific Avenue

jdeleon1979 — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:18:02 +0000

During a walk along Pacific Ave in Long Beach, WA, I noticed a barrage of signs hanging on a storefront. One sign in particular caught my eye mostly because of its funny typo and not necessarily because of its content – though I certainly didn’t encourage my wife to go into the store after taking this picture. The authors of The Great Typo Hunt might want to add this to their list of typos to fix.

Spot that typo!

brandon_kim — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:50:10 +0000

Thanks to Typoze member Deletia for spotting this error.

Can you spot the error?

So, Um, You Know, Here’s, Like, My Response, Ya Know?

hirooo — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:29:57 +0000

I read a funny column a couple months ago in the Toastmaster Magazine (http://www.toastmasters.org/). Yes, I do believe good speaking is just as important as proper spelling, punctuation and grammar in printed material. Copywriter John Cadley’s piece titled “So, Um, You Know, Here’s, Like, My Column, Ya Know?” describes his view on the devolution of the English language brought about by the texting, emailing and tweeting generation. According to Cadley, in this new electronic world, “the rules of spelling, grammar and punctuation are not simply ignored; they’re beaten with a stick. Language has no intrinsic beauty.” He can’t believe that intelligent young men and women of this generation can do so much with technology, be successful in school and yet still have difficulty spelling basic words like “restaurant.”

He continues to paint an image of his recent nightmare involving a popular celebrity from MTV’s Jersey Shore series. Maybe the cast of the show are popular, but there’s no way that they are role models, right?

I’m sure we’ve all been guilty of shortening our sentences and abbreviating our words while frantically trying to get off the last few letters in the car before the traffic light turns green. I have to admit that I probably do that more than I’d be willing to share with the local police officers. I even remember encouraging my mother to “loosen up her text messages” after receiving her perfectly punctuated, grammatically correct and complete sentences. Maybe it’s not a problem with the younger generations but a problem with the older generations creating technology that allows us to send awful messages.

So, um, at least I feel better knowing that I can still form a sentence, like, without using extra filler words, you know?

Read the full column by John Cadley here: So, Um, You Know, Here’s, Like, My Column, Ya Know?

The remainder of that issue of the Toastmaster Magazine can also be accessed here: Toastmasters Magazine June 2011

P.S. The online article has several typos. Most of them are extra spaces or missing spaces. Rest assured that the original printed copy had none of these typos. I wonder if Mr. Cadley knows that his perfectly punctuated article was “updated” for the online generation.

For Dog Owners

jdeleon1979 — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:00:58 +0000

There’s a park near my house with a large field where my daughter and I kick the soccer ball and fly kites. Unfortunately, I must always remind her to be on the lookout for dog droppings. The park has a free plastic bag dispenser specifically for dog owners, so I don’t understand why there are still so many “landmines.” Maybe the park should just remove the plastic bag dispenser and replace it with this sign. It cannot be any clearer. I will send a message to the local parks & recreation people.

Spotted in Time magazine

brandon_kim — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:17:19 +0000

Thanks to Typoze member Deletia for spotting this error in Time magazine’s August 15th edition.

Sign reads “A Village in Kenya is Missing it’s ID[IOT]” on page 34.

Here’s some gratitude!

allstarALB — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:38:11 +0000

Here at Typoze.com, we don’t just dedicate all our time to helping people identify typos. We also spend time googling ourselves (technical term is egosurfing)! Don’t pretend like you haven’t done it yourself. =)

Now that we agree that we’ve all searched ourselves at one point or another , I can talk about a wonderful article I found on welovegratitude.com posted by a woman named Helen. Her blog is titled “Typoes, Typoz, Typos! =)” and without spoiling the range of emotions related to her feelings on typos, I’ll just say that it’s highly entertaining and I found myself chuckling to each of the bullet points she lists.

Here’s the link.

Enjoy!

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Even Typo-Free Signs Aren’t Always Effective

jdeleon1979 — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:37:46 +0000

I took this picture with my phone a few weeks ago at the San Diego County Fair; I just couldn’t resist. There’s no typo here, just a blatant disregard for AgriFair protocol.