But! I chanced to notice Blackmask had a copy of Sax Rohmer's Bimbashi Baruk of Egypt and its cover certainly demonstrated a superior sense of design. Clearly if some effort had been put into the cover, surely this would be reflected in the contents as well? Look at the cover!
I was so pleased by the effort Blackmask made at being creative that I missed a certain unforgiveable typo. Bimbashi Baruk of... "Eygpt?!" Does no one at Blackmask have a copy of Word they could use to run spellcheck?
Needless to say, I'm done with buying public domain books from shady publishers like these.
Can't they just do a photo-facsimile of some of this stuff?
ReplyDeleteYou would think...
ReplyDeleteI suspect they use some sort of scanning software, given some of the more baffling typos I've observed.