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Originally Posted by HarryT
It depends whether the inaccuracies fall within your field of expertise or not. If they do, they can be infuriating; if they don't, the reader probably isn't going to even notice. I wouldn't have known the "Congressional Medal of Honor" was wrong, had you not told me that it was.
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I agree with this. If I don't know there's an error it doesn't bother me.
However, if I know it's an error I can be quite forgiving if it's fiction. I think there needs to be a balance between the time taken to research and the time taken to write an engaging story when it comes to writing fiction. So for fiction, for me it's a matter of degree.
I'm a bit darker on logic errors in the storyline. I'm reading a book where a woman is lying on a bed for the first part of the scene and is then suddenly rushing into her lover's arms when he enters the room. Because there's no mention of her standing up, it reads like the author forgot where she was. This sort of thing creates a problem for me while reading because I sense a subtle (or not so subtle) disconnect. I don't always feel this with an incidental technical error.
I can still be harsh on some errors though - ones that require almost no effort to verify. If an author tried to tell me that Sydney was the capital of Australia I'd be pretty pissed as it takes nearly no effort to come up with the correct answer.