Rob - nice idea I suppose but have you ever tried sending your highlights to amazon themselves. I only ask because kindle readers of ours have been quick to complain to amazon of mistakes (or not) in our ebooks and amazon have informed us of these and we've corrected them.

One slight concern has been that amazon seem to believe all books should be in American English and therefore we've had English spellings flagged on occasion.

Those of us who edit and proofread for a living want to get paid for doing this work. Crowdsourcing it to Kindle readers *after* the book's been published is not the way to go.

Ha! :-)

As a teacher of English who often sees the most appalling errors in even my own colleagues' writing, I wouldn't trust the majority of readers to be able to spot these mistakes in the first place, let alone correct them.

I tweeted an author about mistakes in his e-book. Someone had done a search & replace on "div" instead of "", and replaced it with "p". I puzzled for quite a while over "pide" and "persity" before I twigged. It simply can't have been proof-read before they published it.

Ah, the clever form stripped out what was between my second set of quotes. It was "div" with the greater than/less than brackets around it.

Heheh, Rob, try Corvus:

'A burst of raucous laughter from the street below, then silence. At night the canal attracted the druggies and homeless, who wrapped their misery in cheap newsprint. But in Zach’s room the silence had the same heavy, creamy texture as laid vellum, the kind sold at specialist stationers, which called out for a thick nib and rich black ink—and a hand inscribing with care. Even the first word was a commitment, each successive stroke a further act of bravery. In the end you had to mark the paper, or forever live between empty pages.'
(Ch. 5)

That's a piece of text from an ebook that has been passed along. You're welcome to sigh, of course...

;-)