On 2010-01-03 , wrote: I am positive that this book is a masterwork of science fiction that readers have come to expect from Stephenson, but I must submit this one star review in the hope that the Kindle version of the book gets some desperately needed attention from an editor. There are so many typographical errors in this book that, having read roughly halfway through, I have gotten fed up to the point of having put my Kindle down mid-sentence on more than one occasion. These are mostly scanning errors - the words ´man,´ ´men´ and ´mat´ appear so often in the place of ´than,´ ´then´ and ´that,´ that I have begun to make the corrections automatically as I read. Is it really so much to ask that someone go through and bring this product to the level that one would expect from a printed book? Sorry I couldn´t review this book for its obvious merits as a great work of storytelling, but I just can´t get over how horrible it is to read this unfinished garbage on the Kindle.. And summed up by saying Kindle version MUST be edited. Currently The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady´s Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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