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I was reading Sir Thursday by Garth Nix tonight and I read a place where the completely wrong name was put in. With no chance of it being my misunderstanding.

While reading The Amulet of Samarkand by Stroud, he used the wrong form of it's/its.

In one of the LOTR books, a name was typoed. (Frondo)



Maybe it's just me, but things like these drive me insane. The first one more than the others... I almost died and my sister, brother, and mom all gave me looks like I was insane.

Does this sort of thing bother you? Have you ever even seen it (maybe some people find ways to find better editted books...)?

Juuust wondering...

Well, these mistakes actually happen in the printing process and with the amount of books that come into a bookshop and which are printed, it is impossible for us to find mistakes in the process which can be caused by all sorts of reasons but usually a fault in the computerised process of printing. When we get a customer who has a faulty book, we withdraw the entire lot and handcheck for the same mistake as usually these mistakes are across an entire batch. We'd then send a message to all other shops asking them to check their copies for the same mistake. So we do try our best to make sure you get a free copy. Anyway, with a faulty book you are always able to take it back to any bookshop without a receipt to get it changed for a fresh copy.

Anyway, be glad you've got relatively minor mistakes, when we released Harry Potter 6, there was a printing error that meant the last chapter was printed at the front of the book!

Hmm... well, I think the whole name switch thing just bothered me... I've never actually had a chapter out of place or anything. It just seemed glaringly obvious (the person wasn't the one who did whatever, but her name was there [she was off somewhere else completely]) and it was just one word switched. Oh well.

It's bothersome when the errors are large and disrupt the book, but I've gotten one or two cheap books because they were 'flawed.' One was an edition of Little Women in which there were only a couple typo-ish errors. For the price, I honestly didn't mind.

But the topic makes me think of a very old edition of the bible, in which one word was omitted. The word "not" was left out of the seventh commandment so it read, "Thou shalt commit adultery."

That annoys me too gonk

I come across small errors like that all the time. I don't think i've ever read a book in which there was not at least one small error. But one of the biggest problems I ever came across, I can't recall what the book was, but I bought this book and got it home, started reading it and discovered that page twelve through sixty-three simple weren't there. I had to go back to the book store and exchange it.

It bothers me, but I'm even more bothered when people correct them, especially when the do so in RED PEN.

I don't ever notice the grammer errors, since my grammer is not so good. I did notice in one book the put the wrong caracter name. I was like "I though he just left? how is he watching himself? where did the other guy go?" Unless I notice it it doen't bug me. I did think of putting the right name but I won't mark a book(except in the front where I put my name, in case I return it to the library by mistake) and it wasn't my book.