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I`ve got to agree with ffred.
I come across many books with errors, not so much in spelling (spell checking is easy for a word processor) but in wrong words (there, their, they`re), missing words, sentences where the author obviously decided to phrase something differently but parts of different versions are still present, e.g. "he decided to climb up go to the top of the hill".
I would love to get a job as a proof reader because whoever is supposed to be proofreading some of these books is just glancing through and not actually reading the book. If I come across an error it just stops me in my tracks no matter how gripping the story, and if there are too many errors I often just give up on the book altogether.
As far as US vs GB English, I can live with aluminum or disoriented because they aren`t mistakes and they aren`t lazy, it just depends who`s reading the book.
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