Re: Free books

Sam Plusnet <[email protected]> Sat, 2 Aug 2025 22:09:35 +0100
Newsgroups rec.arts.books.childrens,rec.arts.books,alt.books,alt.usage.english
Organization Newshosting.com - Highest quality at a great price! www.newshosting.com
Message-ID <j8vjQ.3392$Eb%[email protected]>
On 02/08/2025 16:57, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 13:03:05 +0200, [email protected] (J. J.
> Lodder) wrote:
> 
>>> If anyone who had difficulty in accessing the pages feels like taking
>>> it up, the address is:
>>>
>>> Matt T. <[email protected]>
>>
>> They have fixed their site in the meantime.
>> (probably as a result of your querry)
>> The refs. from your original posting of a month ago
>> are now clickable, [1]
> 
> Thanks for letting me know -- I've passed it on to them.
> 
>>
>> Jan
>>
>> [1] The site says I can download the first 20% for trial,
>> but since they demand the creation of an account with them for that
>> I'm not going to try if it works.
>> BTW, they say you write English (South African dialect)
> 
> That's about right.
> 
> People who don't specify such things somtimes are subjected to
> criticism from American readers who complain about books being full of
> spelling errors, and sometimes punctuation errors as well.

I'm told that even if you do make that clear, you will still still be 
castigated - since there is 'obviously' only one correct spelling of 
"colour" etc.

-- 
Sam Plusnet