On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:51:10 -0400, James Silverton wrote:
>
> Sometimes I wonder about nitpickers like the people who read library
> books slowly and carefully and correct in non-erasable ball-point things
> they see as mistakes. They're not always correct and, are in fact, about
> 30% of the time are just plain ignorant. There will be proof-reading
> mistakes in books and unless there are more than a few, I probably would
> not complain. As I said, I might not even notice one or two.

my absolute favorite story along these lines was told by a librarian. it
seems they had a patron who would 'edit' out naughty words in books using
white-out *and then carefully draw a little asterisk with a ballpoint pen*
to represent each letter thus expunged. i would say that's going beyond
the call of duty.

your pal,
blake