[Laine]

I find that I can handle spelling errors - after all I'm used to reading English and American books.

But there are some errors that throw me out of reader trance. I recently read a Regency Romance set in England where someone was walking along listening to the sound of the mockingbirds. There were no mockingbirds in my Observers Book of British Birds.

I think either the job of editor is being phased out or standards for emloyment (sorry employment) as editor are dropping.