Dark Talent Typos Thread [DT Spoilers]

[ccstat he/him]

It can be difficult to tell with these books whether any given oddity is actually an error or is simply another intentional flouting of convention. Still, these are the items I noticed in my Kindle edition that might warrant attention.

• Chapter Trillian: (Kindle Loc ~890) Footnote for "boot onto my foot" simply reads "Note". Could be a joke, but could also be a missing footnote.
• Chapter 13: (kindle loc ~1713) footnote for "souls" uses flare instead of flair. Could be a typo or a pun.
• Acknowledgments: Isaac Stewart's name has umbrellas instead of Ts--very cute. These rendered correctly on my actual Kindle, but in the android app they appeared as boxes, the kind you see for unmapped characters. (They also triggered a mid-name text wrap on my actual Kindle, but that is probably a difficult fix.)
• Bastille's Note: While not an error, the placement in the kindle edition is a problem. It is the very last thing, after the acknowledgments, bios, reading guide, copyright info, and footnotes. I only saw it because the footnotes-as-endnotes system in e-books bugs me and I try to read several footnotes at a time so I don't have to link back and forth as much. I suspect that most ebook version readers will completely miss that note, with a definite impact on their experience. I suggest either moving the note to directly follow the afterword, or inserting an additional footnote link there that will take the reader to the right location. (In fact, I rather like the idea of putting the envelope illustration on the page after the afterword, with a footnote link that would take you to the illustrations of the opened pages.)

[WayneSpren he/him]

32 minutes ago, ccstat said:

It can be difficult to tell with these books whether any given oddity is actually an error or is simply another intentional flouting of convention. Still, these are the items I noticed in my Kindle edition that might warrant attention.

• Chapter Trillian: (Kindle Loc ~890) Footnote for "boot onto my foot" simply reads "Note". Could be a joke, but could also be a missing footnote.
• Chapter 13: (kindle loc ~1713) footnote for "souls" uses flare instead of flair. Could be a typo or a pun.
• Acknowledgments: Isaac Stewart's name has umbrellas instead of Ts--very cute. These rendered correctly on my actual Kindle, but in the android app they appeared as boxes, the kind you see for unmapped characters. (They also triggered a mid-name text wrap on my actual Kindle, but that is probably a difficult fix.)
• Bastille's Note: While not an error, the placement in the kindle edition is a problem. It is the very last thing, after the acknowledgments, bios, reading guide, copyright info, and footnotes. I only saw it because the footnotes-as-endnotes system in e-books bugs me and I try to read several footnotes at a time so I don't have to link back and forth as much. I suspect that most ebook version readers will completely miss that note, with a definite impact on their experience. I suggest either moving the note to directly follow the afterword, or inserting an additional footnote link there that will take the reader to the right location. (In fact, I rather like the idea of putting the envelope illustration on the page after the afterword, with a footnote link that would take you to the illustrations of the opened pages.)

...none of these are unintentional errors, as far as I can tell. I do remember reading a couple spelling errors though.

[WeiryWriter he/him]

33 minutes ago, ccstat said:

Chapter Trillian: (Kindle Loc ~890) Footnote for "boot onto my foot" simply reads "Note". Could be a joke, but could also be a missing footnote.

I'm assuming this is not a mistake since it's a footnote on the word foot saying note.

33 minutes ago, ccstat said:

Acknowledgments: Isaac Stewart's name has umbrellas instead of Ts--very cute. These rendered correctly on my actual Kindle, but in the android app they appeared as boxes, the kind you see for unmapped characters. (They also triggered a mid-name text wrap on my actual Kindle, but that is probably a difficult fix.)

Not a mistake, Isaac's name usually has some weird formatting in the Acknowledgments.

[ccstat he/him]

3 hours ago, WeiryWriter said:

Not a mistake, Isaac's name usually has some weird formatting in the Acknowledgments.

The error is that the umbrellas (which I assume to be the intended formatting) didn't show up correctly in the Android app.

[Sand Master]

The "note" note I think is a joke. I certainly found it funny.

The "flare" should indeed be "flair," you are correct.

Using an Android myself, I saw the umbrellas in Isaac Stewart's name. I am using Google Play Books for the app.

As for Bastille's note, I (using an e-reader) found it just fine. I was shocked to think that it might have ended where it seemed to, so I was frantically searching for anything that said otherwise. This was especially true because I saw how much of the book there was remaining, although most of that turned out to be the pages and pages of footnotes, along with the Acknowledgements and reading exercises.

Edited September 19, 2016 by Sand Master
Mr. Ahlstrom outranks me.

[PeterAhlstrom he/him]

None of these are typos.

Note is a joke. Flare is a pun.

Isaac's name: Kindle app's fault. Not fixing this one because trying to isolate a fix just for the Kindle app is a huge pain. The app may get fixed in the future.

Bastille's note's location is on purpose. If people miss it, that's their problem.