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I really find typos annoying. Yes, they sometimes get through, but they really shouldn't. I'm a visual reader, so 'see' the action in my head when I'm reading. I don't really see the words unless there's a problem. Some small typos I can skim, they're road bumps. Others make me stop, reread, adjust the video in my head, and move on. They're throwing me out, and those are worse.
I think some new authors aren't paying for any editing, depending on family and friends who don't have professional skills. And it shows. And I think some of those authors do go back and make corrections. I've seen a lot of book updates from Amazon on my purchases over the last year or so.
I would return a lot more published books with a large number of typos if I could get to reading them within the return time limit. One I just tried to read a few weeks ago I'd saved up, as it sounded great, only to have it throw me out with typos, bad formatting, and every 50th or so quotation mark missing. Too late to return, by a long shot, and no update. So I have no hope that it's been corrected. Bummer.
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