I shall look up more details on the story, I'm almost certain I have books that reference it happening.
Yes but the point was that he was translating directly from the gold plates. So unless you accept that the actual translation is only a generalised, and paraphrased one, then there would be very few inconsistencies between the two texts.I suspect were you to have stole that many pages of the Bible from the authors of Mark, Matthew, Luke and John, they would have to also paraphrase it.