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		<title>Ctrl-F Error Defaces Classic Work of Literature</title>

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			<dc:creator>Kat Stoeffel</dc:creator>
				
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_243742" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 370px"><a href="http://observer.com/?attachment_id=243742" rel="attachment wp-att-243742"><img class=" wp-image-243742" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/56464978.jpg?w=600" alt="" width="360" height="321" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">According to Getty, Tolstoy's somewhere in this babe pile.</p></div></p>
<p>Computers. What are they good for?  To make human errors more pervasive and therefore funnier, for one. Consider this Nook version of Leo Tolstoy's <em>War and Peace</em>, in which, according to blogger <a href="http://villagecraftsmen.blogspot.com/2012/05/nookd.html">Philip Howard</a> (hat tip <a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/nook-version-of-war-and-peace-turns-the-word-kindled-into-nookd/">Ars Technica</a>), every instance of the word "kindled" has been replaced with "Nookd."<!--more--></p>
<p>"It was as if a light had been Nookd in a carved and painted lantern," goes one of eight occasions of (probably inadvertent) Barnes &amp; Noble propagandizing.</p>
<p>Our best guess is that the publisher who submitted it to Nook, <a href="http://superiorformatting.com/">Superior Formatting Publishing</a>, had also submitted it to rival Amazon's Kindle and had changed references on the cover page, etc. with a quick find-and-replace. Superior Formatting Publishing appears to be part of the <a href="http://mashable.com/2007/11/12/public-domain-ebook-sources/">cottage industry of pseudo-publishers</a> who reformat pre-ebook books that have entered the public domain, especially clunky classics like <em>War and Peace.</em></p>
<p>It's an easy error to make but an embarrassing one, considering your sole function is to format a book that has already been discovered, edited, copy-edited, and translated by humans who didn't even have computers.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_243742" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 370px"><a href="http://observer.com/?attachment_id=243742" rel="attachment wp-att-243742"><img class=" wp-image-243742" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/56464978.jpg?w=600" alt="" width="360" height="321" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">According to Getty, Tolstoy's somewhere in this babe pile.</p></div></p>
<p>Computers. What are they good for?  To make human errors more pervasive and therefore funnier, for one. Consider this Nook version of Leo Tolstoy's <em>War and Peace</em>, in which, according to blogger <a href="http://villagecraftsmen.blogspot.com/2012/05/nookd.html">Philip Howard</a> (hat tip <a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/nook-version-of-war-and-peace-turns-the-word-kindled-into-nookd/">Ars Technica</a>), every instance of the word "kindled" has been replaced with "Nookd."<!--more--></p>
<p>"It was as if a light had been Nookd in a carved and painted lantern," goes one of eight occasions of (probably inadvertent) Barnes &amp; Noble propagandizing.</p>
<p>Our best guess is that the publisher who submitted it to Nook, <a href="http://superiorformatting.com/">Superior Formatting Publishing</a>, had also submitted it to rival Amazon's Kindle and had changed references on the cover page, etc. with a quick find-and-replace. Superior Formatting Publishing appears to be part of the <a href="http://mashable.com/2007/11/12/public-domain-ebook-sources/">cottage industry of pseudo-publishers</a> who reformat pre-ebook books that have entered the public domain, especially clunky classics like <em>War and Peace.</em></p>
<p>It's an easy error to make but an embarrassing one, considering your sole function is to format a book that has already been discovered, edited, copy-edited, and translated by humans who didn't even have computers.</p>
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