Question about EU continuity

I imagine this topic has been created before, but I tried putting continuity in the search engine and got slathered with hundreds of posts that just wouldn't be practical to sort through. I tried reading a few, but it confused me even more. It was like walking in the middle of a conversation. So...on to my question, but a quick piece of background first.

I've recently gotten into the EU and I'm reading them chronologically...I've read Bakura through Iron Fist, and while I wait for Solo Command to arrive, I've read Darth Maul Sabateur and I'm in the process of reading Cloak of Deception.

QUESTION
I have heard that there are continuity errors in some of the books. Is there a site that has a listing on them? If not, are there any big, glaring continuity errors I should watch out for and that have a explanation?

 

You're refering to NJO-class books. Where Jedi were Knights in one book, a Master in the next, back to Knight in the following. It gets better from there, and funnier.

 

If they don't stand out, don't worry about it. You'll enjoy the books better if you don't have to worry about continuity errors.

 

I'm sure Val will have a detailed report book to book.

I know in Dark Journey they refer to Kyp Durron as Kip, or something like that.

There are quite a few especially when certain wars took place. I think the Thrawn Trilogy has the amount of time since the clone wars wrong.

-Seldon

 

I must be thick if I didn't pick up on the Kip in Dark Journey. But that's what you need to make it through that book. How often was it?

 

Yeah, especially if you get his name wrong

 

The biggest of all time was Tales of the Bounty Hunters declaring that Jaster Mereel was Boba Fett. He changed his name and became a bounty hunter. It's not really the authors fault because he knew nothing of Ep. II in 1996.

 

I know in Dark Journey they refer to Kyp Durron as Kip, or something like that.

I believe that's a typo over a continuity error. A continuity error would have been to say Kyp was older than Luke, ten years old, female, a Bothan, or something along those lines. A phonetic spelling of his name is not a continuity error as it doesn't change how his name is pronounced or what it is. If you have the NEGtC, take a look on page 61 at how his name is pronounced. You'll see it's the same as the DJ typo. Though the typo does not show that the Y in Kyp is pronounced with a short I sound.

 

The basic answer to your question is that there are not many major errors, but there are so many in general, that they are not all listed anywhere.

In order to actually understand why they exist, you would need to read all the book in order of publication rather than chronological. For example, that way you know why a certain character is not mentioned in some book they should have been, probably because they did not exist yet.

 

I counted nearly twenty typos in Heirs of Earth. but I gather that book was rushed to press, after waiting a long year while Force Heretic went out.

I don't want to imagine what proof reading went into something the absurd size as the Night's Dawn Trilogy.

Can anyone tell me how the naked god stopped the possessed in that final book, by any chance?