Interesting thing is that when looking at history societies tend to become matriarchal shortly before they collapse. They may stay around for 100-200 years of being matriarchal but collapse they do. The interesting thing is that the same societies were around for many more centuries or millenia prior to that as patriarchal societies.
Makes one think.
Care to back that statement up with some examples?
Ugh. I've read some of those OCR'd books and they are painful. I can usually figure out what the word (or words) were supposed to be. I got to the point where I expected every "d" to be a "cl" in disguise.
Were these minor fixes, like correcting spelling or grammar? I can understand that (and there's a lot of OCR'd crap that could use such treatment.) But skimping on an editor because you can just "take care of the Big Picture stuff and then do a major revision by the author for the Second Printing" would seriously piss me off if I was someone who had purchased the first run. I would move right along to an author who gave a crap.
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Interesting thing is that when looking at history societies tend to become matriarchal shortly before they collapse. They may stay around for 100-200 years of being matriarchal but collapse they do. The interesting thing is that the same societies were around for many more centuries or millenia prior to that as patriarchal societies. Makes one think.
Care to back that statement up with some examples?
Ugh. I've read some of those OCR'd books and they are painful. I can usually figure out what the word (or words) were supposed to be. I got to the point where I expected every "d" to be a "cl" in disguise.
Were these minor fixes, like correcting spelling or grammar? I can understand that (and there's a lot of OCR'd crap that could use such treatment.) But skimping on an editor because you can just "take care of the Big Picture stuff and then do a major revision by the author for the Second Printing" would seriously piss me off if I was someone who had purchased the first run. I would move right along to an author who gave a crap.