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Originally Posted by HarryT
Why would anyone not like the idea that a book should be free from basic grammar and spelling errors?  That just seems like "a given" to me. If an author can't be bothered to get those things right, why should I be bothered to read his or her book? |
You probably shouldn't, since it bothers you, but a few spelling/grammar errors don't bug me if there's a good story overall, so probably it's a YMMV thing.
I do definitely recommend using an editor, though. You can get very good editing work done for under $200 and I don't think that's an unreasonable investment. I'd rather an author hire an editor than hire a cover artists.
But, yeah, if an error slips through the cracks of the editing process, I'm not going to set the book aside. But maybe that's your philosophy, too, and you're talking about Once Per Page errors. That would bother me, too.