How to scan cheaply and annoy people

I recently purchased Dale Carnegie's How to win friends and influence people for the kindle.

Of course when I made my purchase I only saw the $4.80 version, not the copies for $5.99, $0.80, or $0.96.

So my commentary really only applies to the "How to Win Friends and Influence People (With easy click Table of Contents)", and unlike most of my posts I'm not really harping on the fact that Amazon is selling the same book for $0.80, $0.96, $4.80, and $5.99 (although it is bullshit).

I got an easy click table of contents with my extra $4.00 after all (you know, the kind that come with every digital book). It was like the scene in Arthur 2 when the apartment came with AOL - automatic on lighting. My joy could only be contained by drink.

No, today's post is about the really lousy job they did converting the book to digital format. Who is this famous 'dark Gable' Mr. Carnegie keeps referring too? Oh, maybe it's Clark Gable.

How does Clark Gable become dark Gable?

My guess is it starts with a cheap blurry reference text and a scanner. But even a blurry 'Cl' doesn't look much like a 'd'. It does look like an O, but Oark isn't a word. So they must have spell checked the text after scanning. So Olark became Dark. Of course Dark shouldn't be capitalized in the middle of a sentence. So through a scanner, spell checker, and grammar checker 'Clark Gable' becomes 'dark Gable'.

You know what we don't have in this scenario? A proof reader.

There's also a half dozen sentences with that make sense if you replace 'tune' with 'time'.

Selling books without reading them first - kindle fail!