Do errors bother you?

[GabbiV]

I like looking out for them because I like to remember that books are made by people and are therefore imperfect, but the only time it bothered me was when I had just bought a new Percy Jackson addition and there was a misprint that spanned from the climax to the end of the book.

[Jfoust1988]

Written errors don't bother me at all. My problem is when I choose to listen to an audiobook. They can have more than one book read by more than one narrator. Mostly because different people will pronounce words differently. That can really annoy me.

[DancingLady]

Depends on how many errors. If there are only a couple, I don’t mind very much. I’ve seen a few books that had 3-4 really obvious errors and it did get annoying. As a kid I encountered one in a story collection where one story was about a boy named Jerry and another about a different boy named Berry and somewhere there was a typo switching the names and I seriously thought we were talking about the other kid and couldn’t understand how he showed up in this story.

[Gracetailor]

Well, I could ignore if the errors did not disrupt my understanding of the novel, but when I have to because of errors, read a line or a sentence three or more times, then it’s a no-no for me.

[GabbiV]

Well, I could ignore if the errors did not disrupt my understanding of the novel, but when I have to because of errors, read a line or a sentence three or more times, then it’s a no-no for me.

I agree, like in the instance of if the author uses the wrong word and I have to figure out what they mean instead, that's what annoys me.

[mnmueller]

Every time I notice an error I want to rant. I get just as annoyed with myself as I get with others, but I really get annoyed when it's in a published book. Factual errors are tied with name errors for most annoying. If they are particularly confusing or upsetting I will stop reading immediately. Slight spelling errors or switching words I can usually tolerate better, but if it averages more than one a chapter I may not be able to finish the book. However, if the mistake makes the whole paragraph not make sense, I'm usually done with the story.

[Camille Turner]

They do bother me a good bit. I understand a typo or grammatical error once in a while but it just takes me out of the book so abruptly.

[230 men]

They don't

[Dael Reader]

One or two doesn't phase me much, but when a book is riddled with errors, I can barely contain my disappointment.

[alangner]

I actually went looking for a post about errors in the forum to see if it bothers other people as much as it bothers me.

I'm reviewing a book right now and the author's improper use of commas is driving me insane. It's a good book. I'm enjoying the actual story, but there are clear-cut rules about comma usage that the author either doesn't know or is just ignoring.

I'll freely admit that I'm probably a little more anal than most people about spelling, word usage, and punctuation than most people because I'm a transcriptionist. However, if you're going to put something out to the public to read, then you should make sure it isn't riddled with errors.

[bclayton13]

Errors like that take me right out of the story, so it makes it difficult to enjoy the book at all. A couple of glaring errors I can forgive and just get back in, but if there are too many, I'm out.

[bclayton13]

I actually went looking for a post about errors in the forum to see if it bothers other people as much as it bothers me.

I'm reviewing a book right now and the author's improper use of commas is driving me insane. It's a good book. I'm enjoying the actual story, but there are clear-cut rules about comma usage that the author either doesn't know or is just ignoring.

I'll freely admit that I'm probably a little more anal than most people about spelling, word usage, and punctuation than most people because I'm a transcriptionist. However, if you're going to put something out to the public to read, then you should make sure it isn't riddled with errors.

I absolutely agree. I recently reviewed a books that had a couple of homonym errors that made me grimace. "Peak" does not equal "peek". I can understand that the spellcheck missed it... and maybe the editor did... but I didn't, and it bothered me.

[alangner]

I absolutely agree. I recently reviewed a books that had a couple of homonym errors that made me grimace. "Peak" does not equal "peek". I can understand that the spellcheck missed it... and maybe the editor did... but I didn't, and it bothered me.

Oi! That would bother me. I just finished a book where the author used "etymologist" instead of "entomologist" and it stopped me in my tracks every time I saw it.

[bclayton13]

I absolutely agree. I recently reviewed a books that had a couple of homonym errors that made me grimace. "Peak" does not equal "peek". I can understand that the spellcheck missed it... and maybe the editor did... but I didn't, and it bothered me.

Oi! That would bother me. I just finished a book where the author used "etymologist" instead of "entomologist" and it stopped me in my tracks every time I saw it.

Errors always take me right out of the story too. It completely ruins the immersion. Luckily it only happened a couple of times so I was able to forgive it.

[Mallory Porshnev]

Poorly edited books are hard for me to even read. The errors are all I notice.