The Bookseller Who Cannot Read
This is a wonderful story from the People's Archive of Rural India about a bookseller who cannot read. Selling books is not just a trade...
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Journal of an Academic Copyeditor
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- Dec 18, 2021
Spelling Errors in Titles and Headings
Last year I was editing a report for a major international consulting organization. There were several co-authors, and the review...
- Dec 11, 2021
When Automatic Footnote Renumbering Fails in Word
This should not happen, because Word automatically renumbers the remaining footnotes if a footnote is deleted. I have experienced this...
- Dec 9, 2021
The Book That Wrote Me a Letter
This email from Better World Books is the most creative letter I've ever received. I was smiling from ear to ear by the time I got to the...
- Dec 9, 2021
The Serendipitous Pleasures of Work-Related Googling
I spend a lot of time Googling while editing; it's an integral part of working with scientific material. To speed up the search, I use...
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