Thanks, Miles. For two things. One – caring about typos. I am a bit of a schoolmarm about newsletter typos. But it really undermines the voice and authority of the author for me. The other thing that does that is having a substack read by an automated reader That misreads/mispronounces words. Even the New Yorker allows this to happen and it makes them unlistenable to me. So, two — thank you so much for reading your own. [Agh! Had to edit out my own typos, after sending prematurely trying to scroll to the bottom of my comment!!]
Thank you, John. I'm with you on both fronts, and as someone who's always struggled with proofing, I've found the audio recording to have the bonus benefit of serving as a more reliable way of checking each story for missing or superfluous words or punctuation; so that readers don't get taken out of each story by typos and such. I genuinely enjoy the recording process too, and I would be reluctant to feed my stuff into the automated reader, which feels kind of like a way of pasteurizing a decent post.
Thanks, Miles. For two things. One – caring about typos. I am a bit of a schoolmarm about newsletter typos. But it really undermines the voice and authority of the author for me. The other thing that does that is having a substack read by an automated reader That misreads/mispronounces words. Even the New Yorker allows this to happen and it makes them unlistenable to me. So, two — thank you so much for reading your own. [Agh! Had to edit out my own typos, after sending prematurely trying to scroll to the bottom of my comment!!]
Thank you, John. I'm with you on both fronts, and as someone who's always struggled with proofing, I've found the audio recording to have the bonus benefit of serving as a more reliable way of checking each story for missing or superfluous words or punctuation; so that readers don't get taken out of each story by typos and such. I genuinely enjoy the recording process too, and I would be reluctant to feed my stuff into the automated reader, which feels kind of like a way of pasteurizing a decent post.