apropos of nothing (except me being on paternity leave + having time to read a little), but it’s striking how many errors creep into some prominent nonfiction books news articles aren’t perfect, of course, but the ability to get real-time feedback and make corrections helps inoculate them
True. I’m writing one now and I know there must be errors lurking in there. Publishers do not do fact checking. Hiring a fact checker (which I’ve done in the past) costs thousands. So I’m doing my own, terrified about what I might miss.
What about how 98% of nonfiction books should be about 75 pages long?
One example — I picked up the “definitive biography” of Lewis Hamilton, flipped through a few pages, and got stuck on this clear error. (Hamilton’s entire team declined to participate in S1 of the show, but he was a major character starting in S2.) A small mistake? Sure. But it adds up.
