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Originally Posted by hobnail
I must be lucky, I can only remember one occurrence and it was in a library book and a previous reader caught it where it was the name of the wrong character so they drew a line through the incorrect name and wrote next to it the correct name. I was kind of glad they fixed it but I still feel that library books shouldn't be defaced, although I've managed to stop being outraged over pages that have been dog-eared.
My favorite memory of library book defacement was one where a character was using a lot of swear words and someone had gone through and marked them out with a black felt tip marker.
Eh, I take that back about only one; I remember starting a book and thinking that they really should have had a good proof reader / editor. But the book was also boring and uninteresting so it was quickly dropped on the return-to-library pile.
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Exactly. I've almost never found a typo in my favorite authors's books. But as DiapDealer says, the standards I expressed above are too strict. This I trust him enough to adopt that stance.