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15865279 No.15865279 [Reply] [Original]

>read a book
>suddenly find a typo

How do you handle this situation?

>> No.15865300

I pull out my Epictetus Enchiridion pamphlet and read my usual passage in circumstances like that.
>Don't demand that things happen as you wish, but which that they happen as they do happen, and you wil go on wel.

>> No.15865304

>>15865279
Masturbate over a hateful letter you wrote, and mail it to the publisher of the book.

>> No.15865305

If it is recently published, I take a note of it and send an email to the publisher with all the typos I found in the book. I have no idea whether this is appreciated or not, but my godfather once told me that publishers would send out free books to people who did this.

>> No.15865309

throw the book on the floor, squirt diarrhea upon it, scream like a bitch, and start masturbating until i bleed
obviously

>> No.15865319

>>15865279
I mostly read epubs, there's usually a typo in every other sentence. Don't care anymore.

>> No.15865340

It actually pisses me off so fucking much. Especially if it's a book I purchased new. How does that get past publishers? I've seen some quite bad ones.

>> No.15865371

>>15865300
>but which
Was there a typo in your copy?

>> No.15865382

>>15865340
I forget which book it was, but there was a typo in the first fucking sentence.

>> No.15865393
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>>15865279
assume the typo was deliberate and add the new spelling to my lexicon

>> No.15865470

>>15865279
That always fucks up my flow because I start wondering if that was a deliberate choice by the author as a 5d meta chess move or something and I was just too stupid to understand it.

>> No.15865478

>>15865279
There has been a review in the New Yorker once on Professor Gabler's corrections on Ulysses making fun of correcting Bloom's fart sound from "Prfftftprrttff" to a "Prfftftprrttfff" as originally intented.

>> No.15865973

>>15865279
I only read on my phone and almost all of the books have been scanned so I just assume it's faulty software.

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15866037

>can't tell if the author actually meant casual or causal

>> No.15866056

>>15865279
send the publishers an angry, angry email
demand refund
demand to be paid for your emotional suffering, either through straight cash or a coupon for a future purpose