Sentences with phrase «bad formatting»

And oh yeah, one other thing I wanted to post about today: my current levels of frustration with badly formatted ebooks.

Readers are much more forgiving of indie authors who have badly formatted books.

Don't waste your time with an old, outdated, badly formatted resume that doesn't highlight your skills!

There is nothing worse than a book with bad formatting issues.

Have you ever purchased a book that was so badly formatted or missing the Table of Contents is was frustrating to read?

Readers still have a problem with badly formatted self - published books.

It's not typos in a book or bad formatting which you can all fix with a little diligence.

The PDF conversion tool is not polished and sometimes give bad formatting result.

Interesting that bad formatting comes up in the discussion.

Bad formatting Most resumes can only be accepted in certain computer program formats, like a word document or text document, or sometimes a PDF.

I love the changes in the publishing world even if a lot of books get published with bad formatting and lousy editing.

(Note: there are a lot of badly formatted eBooks out there — some of them you can hardly read.)

We are not even thinking about bad formatting.

ePub files used on eBook readers suck due to how badly they format in regards to math sympols, scientific formulas and most foreign language characters such as Hebrew and Greek.

If we didn't check for these issues before we started to format, then we could have huge issues that would produce a very badly formatted book.

Bad formatting marks you an amateur and drives readers away, and Word is notorious for inserting tons of special characters invisible while in that program but glaringly obvious when converted to ebook format.

Readers loathe wading through garbled grammar, typos and badly formatted text and online reviewers are never slow to point this out.

And design, flair, and bad formatting distracts from that content.

Misspellings represent your lack of attention to detail, bad formatting shows your inability to represent yourself or their company, and rambling on your resume demonstrates poor communication skills.

Your Resume Is Badly Formatted Looks matter.

My biggest annoyance is badly formatted ebooks.

What I have discovered, however, is that almost all the e-books I've returned for a refund or just deleted off my kindle for bad formatting issues have come from these «indies».

The only way I could find to inform Amazon of how badly formatted the Bet Me is was to write a review detailing what happened (which I did), but I don't even know if that will help me get my money back.

The only other time I've asked for a refund is when the book was so badly formatted that it was basically unreadable.

I have had zero problems with bad formatting with the Mobi format, and I have gotten quite a few files from that site.

Also, as an FYI, as a power - consumer of ebooks, the WORST formatted ones, with arbitrary pages of space between paragraphs, etc, are from the major houses, which presumably (but not necessarily) have dedicated html people.

I'll say this is a very American book, at its core; the stock images that cover the top of every chapter repelled me, as did the bad formatting of the book.

I'm guessing it wouldn't), it's good to see publishers experimenting with the ebook format, which should be more than a badly formatted PDF.

Or they can keep it in print at a low level with poor scans and bad formatting, hurt my career, and there is not one thing I can do about it.

Moreover, speaking as a small - fry digital and indie author, it's deeply frustrating to me to see so much brouhaha over how self - pubbed authors are so often putting up badly formatted, unprofessional material — yet to turn around and see the big publishers still sometimes doing the same damned thing.

There are authors out there every day who self - publish their books and get 1 - star reviews and complaints to companies like Amazon about the bad formatting.

Maybe you've seen one of my earlier Kindles that did have bad formatting.

But, always remember that bad formatting could end up with bad reviews which will follow your book around.

It's badly formatted and dull - ugly.

Many ebooks might badly formatted.

To say I was angry when reading the book is an understatement — it was badly formatted and the editing was non-existent.

The problem has become so pervasive that one editor, Rich Adin, has even started an «E-book Hall of Shame» to call out bad formatting.

Please note: While we'd all like to believe that there is some magical fix for buying a.99 cent e-book that happens to be badly formatted, the truth of the matter is that there is not a new magical system that will pull books with spelling and grammar erroros off the market.

If the book has bad formatting issues, and basically renders it unreadable Amazon will suppress it and the book listing will be removed.

Some of the worst formatted and most expensive eBooks I've purchased have been from Big 5 publishers.

, the software is rock solid (I don't think I've had to do a reset more than 2x in over 4 years, and that was due to a badly formatted epub), and when you add PRS + to the x50 line of readers it can't be beat.»

Bad formatting, tons of errors, etc..

Many digital readers have found themselves of the predicament of reading a badly formatted book and wishing they could have their money back.

I only see it used for the truly profit - mongering parasites that still charge thousands to bring a badly formatted and edited overpriced book to the market (why, yes, PublishAmerica, I'm looking at you).