A terrible edition of a pretty good book. This Bantam version is full of obvious typos and has no notes to gloss the numerous French passages.

Shockingly dull so far, but I have a proofing job to do for a real publisher and need to brush up on the conventions.

It’s okay, but I don’t love it. I have two editions of this book and chose to read this one first because it had better notes, but now I wonder if the translation in the other one might be more lively.

At first I thougt this book was yummy, and a good subway-reading size. The farther I got into it, however, the more disappointed I became. It’s pretty and has some interesting examples, but it’s not really a useful book. And the one purely utilitarian part—the appendix, which includes info on editing and proofreading marks, contains errors.

I might recommend this book to a student who knows absolutely nothing about design, but a reasonably informed design professional may find it stupid.

I loved the miniseries of this (starring Anthony Andrews) when I was a kid, but I guess I never read the book before. It’s engaging, suspenseful, and easy to read. Weirdly plotted. This edition has a lot of typos.

I acquired this book while working on a proofreading job, took an hour or two out to read the main text of it, and have been very glad I did. The instructional part of the text, geared toward the professional proofreader, progresses clearly and succinctly, with plentiful examples and no tedious filler. The author just tells you how to perform your task in an efficient, thorough, and professional way.

The second half of the book comprises mostly exercises—with answer keys. I’m looking forward to doing those when I have some free time.

Pepys’s (kidney) stone was described as ‘very great’ . . . it was as big as a tennis ball

I enjoyed this a great deal—couldn’t stop reading it, wanted it to go on longer. Well. except for the part about her eye surgery. Eeeyack!

It was very informative and worthwhile, certainly, but more academic in tone than I had expected from the Amazon.com reviews.

I’m listening to this because it’s free: the whole album can be streamed from the Low Millions web site. I don’t remember how I heard of it-an Amazon.com recommendation?-but when I first checked it out, I thought, Ho hum, power pop, not very interesting. But later in the day I found myself with something from it stuck in my head, so I went back. Now I occasionally stream the music from the web site while I do other stuff, like putter around in the living room.

It’s not deep. Not at all. And the song “Diary” annoys me quite a bit. But it’s good bouncy-background-music-for-doing-something-else-to.

And did I mention that it’s free? So you might as well check it out.