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I recently read "Jane and the Man of the Cloth", by Stephanie Barron on my Kindle, and it had hundreds of OCR errors. Many were 'gentle' rendered as 'gende', including 'gendeman' for 'gentleman', etc. It was horrific, since the book was set in Regency times, and words like gentleman are used constantly. I highlighted every one I could, and sent the list to Amazon, with a complaint. They refunded my money, and I see that the book is not currently available for Kindle. The first book in the series had some typos, too, but not quite as bad. I enjoyed the story, but the typos were a constant irritant.
Many errors could be caught with spell-check, and a couple of little programs that could catch things like improper spacing around hyphens, and maybe validating proper names against a list for the book in question.
When they are too lazy to run spell-check, it really makes me mad.
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