I love the convenience of my kindle, being able to buy books straightaway, no need to go out to the shops etc. However, what has annoyed me recently is the seemingly slapdash way in which books are converted to ebooks.
Two books I've read recently on my kindle have had glaring errors - spelling, grammar, even getting names wrong. It's annoying. I'm cross that I've spent money, maybe not as much as I would have done for a paperback, on a book that has not been proof-read properly or perhaps not at all.
The quality is disappointing. It should be the same standard as a paper book but it often isn't. I read Elizabeth Jane Howard's The Light Years last week (the first in her Cazalets series). I had it on my kindle, and also had a paperback copy as part of the set I bought after getting the ebook. There were too many errors in the ebook. I was fairly certain she would never have used the word "dude" either in her novels or in real life :o and yet there it was. On checking the paper book, it should have read "dear". Just one example of several errors.
Rivers of London by Ben Aarononovitch, as an ebook, is virtually unreadable - typos throughout and even names are wrong.
Has anyone else found glaring errors? What do you do about them? Do you complain to the ebook provider, try to get a refund? I don't know the best way forward - mass returns of erroneous books? Petitions for better quality? We need to take a stand :)