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I am reading a book now and when I hit "stitt" I was thrown off. I reread the sentence and it was clearly meant to be "still". Even a simple spell check should have caught that It's even worse when the author uses the wrong word such as "he wouldn't tow the line" or has a factual error such as "he released the safety on the revolver."
Occasionally, the errors are enough I quit reading the book and I always notice Amazon Kindle and the publisher in those cases.
Sometimes the book was obviously converted with an OCR and never proofed. One of my favorites was a Chester Himes book in which, "...the bullet mailed the hat to his head." Nailed the hat to his head, you nitwit.
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