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It depends on the genre of the book and the type of error...
If it's historical, I am not very forgiving. Best example is (even if it's not a book) Hollywood's version of WW2. I can't help but roll my eyes and get put off by it 99% of the time.
However, if it's fiction based in the past, I will be more forgiving if someone gets something minor mixed up.
With sci-fi, if I see an effort by the author, even if there's an error, I'll let it slide.
And due to my work experience, anything that involves accounting or computers becomes hard to accept if I see minimal/no effort. You don't run through the numbers of a multi-billion company by glancing at a random report for a couple of seconds, nor by spending a night going through a box full of paper and then find their 10 year effort of stealing money. Neither do you hack a computer by sitting down at a random computer and start typing stuff. As hard as I try, I just find it -really- hard to accept it because it's my field of work and I know it a bit too well.
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