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What’s the worst proofreading you’ve found in a book? (lemmy.world)
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I just finished reading a Star Wars Legends book, which was book 1 of the Corellian Trilogy, called “Ambush at Correlia” by Roger McBride Allen. And there was atleast 24 various typos throughout the book. From missing letters, to the wrong word, the wrong tense, wrong capitalizations, and mixed up letters.

The book is a First Edition soft cover, and I’ll leave some examples in the comments.

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[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago

I was having a first edition of The Mote in God's Eye signed by one of the authors, Larry Niven. He flipped it open to a page he had memorized, crossed out a word, wrote in a new one, then signed it and gave it back.

The phrase he'd altered was "They should have been ~~spared~~ spaced." That's "spaced" as in "they should have been thrown out an open airlock.

So that printing error would have been pretty confusing for a first-time reader of the book.

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Wow, that's a compete change of tone.

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

That’s awesome, I love when authors have a bit of “sass” or flair like that.

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