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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
It's all about the frequency for me. Pretty-much every book ever printed has had typos. A few here or there don't bother me at all. Neither should they bother a reviewer.
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Agreed except it depends. I expect some typos but if they alter the meaning or draw the reader to the wrong conclusion, then even one is one too many. If someone writes "If you add to balls to the existing rack of five balls", the error is annoying but not fatal and not noteworthy. But if you write "If you add to balls to the existing rack of five balls so that there are eight balls in the rack", the errors are noteworthy and fatal. And if the errors are compounded, as in "If you add to balls to the existing rack of five balls so that there are ate balls in the rack", the signal I get is that this is a book that should be discarded and the author put on my blacklist.