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What’s the worst proofreading you’ve found in a book? (lemmy.world)
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I just finished reading a Star Wars Legends book, which was book 1 of the Corellian Trilogy, called “Ambush at Correlia” by Roger McBride Allen. And there was atleast 24 various typos throughout the book. From missing letters, to the wrong word, the wrong tense, wrong capitalizations, and mixed up letters.

The book is a First Edition soft cover, and I’ll leave some examples in the comments.

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[–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

A “Reading Club” version of a Michael Crichton book, but I don’t remember which title it was. Lots of typos, missed punctuation, and misprinted letters. The book was still good though.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Another user mentioned Crichton as well, said theirs was Canibal, does that ring anything?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    No, I don’t think I’ve read that one. I want to say it was either Terminal Man or Airframe but I can’t remember which. I just remember it was specifically a book club version because it had a bunch of discussion questions in the back.

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