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In my lit class we have to read about a dozen science fiction-ish novels over the semester, and the last novel we had to read was Blood Music by Greg Bear. The content of the book was so-so, some cool themes but ultimately I wasn't very satisfied with it. But that's not what this blog is about. This blog is about typos.
The copy of the book I got was published by some company called e-reads, and this book single-handedly accounts for 99% of all typos I've ever seen in published novels. It was seriously ridiculous how many typos there were in this book, I would say on average at least 1.5 every other page, but often 4-5 on 1 page (and this was a 300 page book). The typos ranged from different words being said (i.e. you can tell the word was supposed to be "in" in the context of the sentence but "hi" was written instead. that particular typo happened often throughout the novel), missing quotation marks, and most frequently missing punctuation.
The frequent amount of typos was so distracting that by the end of the book my mind was thinking more about how this many typos could possibly get published than about the content of the book itself. Seriously I don't even want a refund, I just want to know how the FUCK this thing was published. Apparently it's only THIS print of the book, earlier prints did not have typos. My only conclusion was that someone with somewhat sloppy handwriting copied down the book word for word on paper, and then gave it to someone who couldn't speak/write English at all to copy by pressing the corresponding keys on a keyboard, and that person ended up not seeing quotation marks or not understanding when to put punctuation.
The typos are too frequent and correlated; there are all the same "types" and not random, and as stated earlier several of the same ones repeat themselves. Seriously WTF happened. Like there's no way all these typos were legit mistypes or printing mistakes, and no way in FUCK would any QA actually miss this much.
Has anyone else ever come across a book so riddled with typos like this? Does QA even exist in publishers that aren't the really big ones? Too long a blog for subject matter?
(also I hope there is a typo somewhere in my OP for irony)
 
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On April 07 2009 12:43 Ideas wrote:
I would say on average at least 1.5 ever other page, but often 4-5 on 1 page (and this was a 300 page book).
(also I hope there is a typo somewhere in my OP for irony)
Irony found
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On April 07 2009 12:43 Ideas wrote:It was seriously rediculous how many typos there were in this book, I would say on average at least 1.5 ever other page, but often 4-5 on 1 page (and this was a 300 page book).
ridiculous*
every*
I don't really have anything to say on the matter since I've never read a book with that many typos, just occasional small ones like or/of and if/in switching around. I think at most I've had 3-5 typos in a whole book, yours just seems like a complete bootleg lol.
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On April 07 2009 12:47 naonao wrote:Show nested quote +On April 07 2009 12:43 Ideas wrote:
I would say on average at least 1.5 ever other page, but often 4-5 on 1 page (and this was a 300 page book).
(also I hope there is a typo somewhere in my OP for irony) Irony found
bastard!
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On April 07 2009 12:48 Kyuukyuu wrote:Show nested quote +On April 07 2009 12:43 Ideas wrote:It was seriously rediculous how many typos there were in this book, I would say on average at least 1.5 ever other page, but often 4-5 on 1 page (and this was a 300 page book). ridiculous* every* I don't really have anything to say on the matter since I've never read a book with that many typos, just occasional small ones like or/of and if/in switching around. I think at most I've had 3-5 typos in a whole book, yours just seems like a complete bootleg lol.
it really seems like someone purposefully put in all these typos to tarnish the author's name lol
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On April 07 2009 12:48 Ideas wrote:Show nested quote +On April 07 2009 12:47 naonao wrote:On April 07 2009 12:43 Ideas wrote:
I would say on average at least 1.5 ever other page, but often 4-5 on 1 page (and this was a 300 page book).
(also I hope there is a typo somewhere in my OP for irony) Irony found bastard!
lol but yeah, I've never encountered typos in a book before, so I have no idea on the subject although my english teacher is constantly telling us how typos and grammar fails detract from our writing and distracts the reader.
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Scanner + OCR + 0 proofreading
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1 star... for ironic purposes (i missed the 5 star and somehow pressed enter)
heh but i dont' remember seeing bks w/ typos
ever read Da Vinci Code? that bk is like grammatically wrong... it's just grammatically wrong...
it skull fuks the english grammar to lil pieces... my teacher's mind got raped by that bk haha
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I thought it was when the publisher run the book through some scanner and use character recognition to digitize the book and reprint or distribute with pdf, so you get stupid typos like 'in' -> 'hi'.
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What pisses me off is when people are typing something (hw, w/e) and they have spelling errors that clearly were getting underlined by MS Word but they didn't bother to notice!!! wtf...
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Baa?21242 Posts
I rely on MS word/Firefox spellchecks too much these days, basically every time I go back and read something I write I would grimace at the typos/errors I made =[
There's gonna be a typo in this post isn't there T_T
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On April 07 2009 13:25 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
I rely on MS word/Firefox spellchecks too much these days, basically every time I go back and read something I write I would grimace at the typos/errors I made =[
There's gonna be a typo in this post isn't there T_T
Well, your verb tenses don't agree, but otherwise - no! 
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