This is my favorite peeve also! Me and him (whoever)go nuts and distracted over typos, grammatical and vocabulary errors. Not that I'm prefect...spellcheck might do a better job than me. lol & thanks.

Couldn't agree more. Other people however, have been know to suggest that I'm just being 'hard to get on with' when I rant about this very subject.

Oh, I hate this!!!! I am so obsessive, that I can't just skip the error, either. I have to figure out what was really suppose to be there in its place. Which then makes me more mad because I lost my momentum.

It makes me mad too. After paying a high price for a book, and then to find numerous spelling errors is just not acceptable. One mistake--maybe. More than two is unacceptable!

The 4 comments I have read contain mistakes...so, this is a joke, right?

Sorry Chris, no joke. These comments are not from paid professionals, so mistakes are ok. When you pay good money for a book, the expectation is for it to be done well.

I agree. When you pay good money for a book, the expection should be high.

We're in agreement here. Nothing worse than correcting spelling and grammar. It takes away from the pleasure of reading.

I can't agree more, I read a book we set in the early 1800's and the man asked the women if she would like to "go out". Now the reference was as in dating, maybe I'm wrong but didn't that phrase start in the 1990's?

My mother always corrected my spelling and grammar, as I'm doing for my children. Isn't it a pride thing about ones work.

Grammar duh! what's dat.

I so agree with you about errors in books. I just don't understand it. I did alot of proof reading for manuals and I just can't go on till I mark the error in RED. I had one book that was so bad, I marked it up and sent it back to the author telling her to find a new editor/publisher.

Boy I can't stand that either. I'm glad someone else brought this up! Thank you!

I suppose I've been fortunate in that the books I've read have had very few errors. Perhaps I've been so engrossed in the story that I somehow miss them, especially if the words are "flowing" for me. But 5 errors in 10 pages? Yes, that would have annoyed me, too.

Barb, That's bad! I also hate it when the characters names change! There was one book that had a dead character asking a question. LOL... Someone didn't do their job with this book. I bet the author is highly embarrassed at all the mistakes. It's a shame. I know that at least 5 or 6 people check for spelling and grammar errors before a book goes out. So why did this one have so many mistakes? Definitely not pleasant reading.

I see this also in scholarly books and usually circle it. It makes me wonder what the editor is paid to do. Maybe they should skip the editing process and just send a first draft to readers for comments and corrections. We are on the alert!

I am so glad not to be alone in this subject. I, too, am often called "picky" when pointing out errors. I even wrote to an author once who kept using the phrase "He wiped the back of his mouth with his hand" That would be a real feat. Thanks for starting your rant!

I once contacted an author because I enjoyed his book very much but it had continuity errors that drove me nuts. His reply was that what had mistakenly been published was an uncorrected proof. Although it seems that the budget for line editors and proofreaders is going the way of the dodo, at at least some publishing companies.