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Typos drive me nuts in a book, instantly pulling me out of the story. My brain just screams how could they miss that? Words left out, mispelled words (one book even had the main character named mispelled), using "she" instead of "he" referring to a male character, missed quotation marks for speech, they all drive me nuts. It looks sloppy and unprofessional, and after I've paid good money for a book, yes, I expect better. If you charge money for a book, you're expected to give your readers some quality.
No, I've never written a book (as said before, the corrections are what editors and proof readers are for). But having scanned a few old books and doing my own OCR, I've read and reread those books as many as five times to catch every typo before I considered them finished. I can understand an author not having any desire to do that... let a handful of your friends or family do it, you're bound to catch most of them. But just running it through some spell check program doesn't cut it.
I used to mark every typo in ebooks with a bookmark and go back and correct them when I finished, it bugs me that much. But I realized I was spending too much time on that when I could be reading the next book, so I finally quit doing that.
I can live with a typo here and there, but when you have more than 10 in a book, shame on you for charging money for your readers to be your proof readers.
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