Typos.. in a book?

I know what you mean. when I was a teacher, I used to get a lot of books where they had a lot of misspelled words, and now I work in a print shop, and the desing always writes the words and specially the addresses worng. thank you for the discussion and sorry for the English!

Oh yes I have in Stephen Kings novels to be exact. It is funny they pay for editors but they aren't catching them all either. I kind of like it because it shows even a best seller can have mistakes and kind of brings them down to our level.

Yes! And I don't know why, but it always surprises me. I thought it was funny how on that show Auction Kings (on the Discovery Channel) they way they were able to know if an old book was indeed an original, was to check it for a couple of typos. Because the first editions apparently had several typos. I believe it was Gone with the Wind they were checking. So apparently even decades later we still can't get rid of typos.

Despite being the queen of typos I do not like reading or seeing them in a book. It looks so tacky and drives me insane too. shouldn't they proof read? Or was the proof reader on strike or maybe is was payback time for him/her

There was a time in my old job where I traveled to different suppliers, that I would pick up a book so that I'd have something to do at night, or while waiting on suppliers. I once picked up a book about a quarterback playing football in Italy (I forgot the title). Not only did the text had typos, some of the pages in the book were missing! I gave up on it.

Hello :). I see typos all the time, even in educational books. I don't really mind when they are sporadic words misspelled, but since I'm from a country that uses Spanish as main language, some translations don't even make sense. When I was in university one of the chemistry books had been translated so badly that some of the experiments didn't even worked. It also affects novels since a lot of English words can be translated in multiple ways to Spanish (depending on what you want to say) a lot of times they don't make any sense at all. It's so confusing I just buy the books in English now, since it seems the translators and editors don't even take the time to read what they are doing.

I rarely see typos in a textbook. But in some of the ebooks I downloaded it is not surprising to get typos and misaligned texts and paragraphs. I hate when I see misspelled words more than 10 times but since I got a poor copy only of the ebooks I just go ahead and read.

I hate typos, but there's nothing to be done about them. About half of the first printings have mistakes in them.Text books always had mistakes. It is horrid. Especially if it is a math book. It is impossible to figure out if the answer is wrong because I made a mistake or because the book is wrong.

I don't typically encounter typos in the books that I read, but I do have to say that when I do see them from time to time it really is something that just drives me insane. I thought that the reason that it bothers me so much is because of the fact that I'm a writer and I had a high interest in writing when I was in college so I learned as much as I could about grammatical errors so that I wouldn't make them myself. I don't think that I would be able to read a book with the errors in name throughout the book like you've described.

I have always seen an occasional error in a book at times. It usually was small enough and infrequent enough to not bother me. However, now with more self publishing and print on demand books I see it more often and sometimes bad enough to make the book undesirable. Also now with ebooks, you can find quick and dirty conversion that were done by scanning in a paper book then running the result through an OCR program. These are often unreadable for me and can often result in the error like you saw of a B becoming a D depending on the fonts used in the original book. Were you reading a book or an ebook? Even it it was a book, they perhaps reprinted it using an OCRed source if it was a recent printing of an older book?

Hell, yeah! Typos and misspelled words are all over. English is not my first language so this is just not a good thing. And you are right, even these informative school books do have them. Some books have second editions or more just to have these errors corrected.

I do see typos in books sometimes, but they don't really bother me. Mistakes can happen to anyone, and if there's only a few of them, they don't take anything away from my reading experience. But, to be honest, I've never seen the kind of error you talk about (systematically misspelling a character's name). I'm sure that would bother me intensely. I mean this looks more like carelessness or incompetence on the part of the editors (or whoever was responsible) than the accidental "we're all human" mistake I sometimes come across.

i also have experienced it and most of the typo,the typo words will be over written always

yeah i have seen it many time and you are right they mostly occured in the mid 80s and 90s , when i was in school days there came a notice with correction that holds all the words which was supposed to be corrected. and our class teacher corrected all those. and that was headache when it came to the correction.

I don't recall having seen typos in a book. But, if I did, I would not be happy about it. Have a good day!

I agree even today there are misspelled words in novels today. This technology now helps but sometimes a human eye works wonders.