Typography

By --Deb on

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You may or may not have seen my post at Punctuality Rules Tuesday, about a book I recently bought that had the actual TITLE misspelled on the spine of the book. A glaring typographical error that really (really!) should have been caught. So, using that as a springboard, today’s question: What’s the worst typographical error you’ve ever found in (or on) a book?
Don’t forget to leave a link to your actual response (so people don’t have to go searching for it) in the comments—or if you prefer, leave your answers in the comments themselves!

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47 responses

  1. Melody

    Hi everyone! Mine’s up! 🙂

    Happy BTT!

  2. saesferd

    Typos

  3. BooksPlease

    Mine’s at http://booksplease.blogspot.com/

  4. Kat

    Hello. Mine’s up. I did a two for one post today 🙂 Happy Thursday!

  5. Marg

    Mine’s up here

  6. Marg

    Whoops..didn’t work… Try the link below

    http://readingadventures.blogspot.com/2007/10/typography.html

  7. Trisha J

    Here’s mine.
    http://trishaj.blogspot.com/2007/10/thursday-meme_18.html

  8. CoversGirl

    A subject dear to my heart! My answer – typo-free – is here.

  9. Charity

    Mine’s here:

    http://writingwrongs.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/booking-through-thursday-gotta-catch-em-all/

  10. Chris@bookarama

    Here’s mine.

    http://chris-book-a-rama.blogspot.com/2007/10/booking-through-thursday-typography.html

  11. Typography (Booking through Thursday)

    […] This week’s meme: You may or may not have seen my post at Punctuality Rules Tuesday, about a book I recently bought that had the actual TITLE misspelled on the spine of the book. A glaring typographical error that really (really!) should have been caught. So, using that as a springboard, today’s question: What’s the worst typographical error you’ve ever found in (or on) a book? […]

  12. superfastreader

    Here’s mine:
    http://superfastreader.com/typography-booking-through-thursday.htm

  13. SFP

    Here’s mine:

    http://pagesturned.blogspot.com/2007/10/typography.html

  14. gautami tripathy

    Hope my post does not contain any typos 😀

    Booking through Typos!

  15. Heidi

    Mine’s here:
    http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ReviewsbyHeidi/410632/

  16. Alice Teh

    Here’s mine! Happy BTT, everybody!

  17. Suey

    Here’s this week’s AND last week’s question:

    http://sueysbooks.blogspot.com/2007/10/booking-through-thursday-live-and-in.html

  18. DeN

    Mine’s up here. Happy Thursday everyone!

  19. Heather (errantdreams)

    I’m a bit late this morning, but better late than never. Here ya go!

  20. Christine

    http://xinef.livejournal.com/158706.html

    Can’t think of any specific examples, but I frequently find typos – spelling mistakes, wrong word chosen, wrong punctuation, etc. in books that I read. I find this distracting and annoying, but unless the mistakes are really frequent, doesn’t usually detract from my enjoyment of the book.

  21. Jaimie

    I have mine up!
    http://lovingmyhome.blogspot.com/search/label/Booking%20Thought%20Thursday%20-%20Typography

  22. Lesley

    Thursday again? So soon?
    http://chapteriii.blogspot.com/2007/10/booking-through-thursday-this-weeks_18.html

  23. Amy

    I missed last week but answered both BTT’s
    here    .

  24. Diane

    Mine is finally up:
    http://bookinhand.blogspot.com/2007/10/typography.html
    Diane

  25. sya

    I’m up.

    http://www.gamalei.net/syaffolee/2007/10/memes-booking-through-thursday.html

  26. Pooch

    http://yarnknitreadlit.blogspot.com/2007/10/dogs-n-books-on-thurday.html

  27. Matthew

    Mine’s up:

    Typography

  28. Barbara

    Mine’s up!

  29. karen

    Mine for this week

  30. Joana

    My answer is up!

    Happy BTT!

  31. Julie

    Here it is!
    http://onetrooluff.livejournal.com/188405.html

  32. Julia

    Happy Booking Through Thursday (hi Deb!) Sorry a little late…but

    Here Mine!

  33. pussreboots

    I haven’t seen anything as bad as “Leanred”. My answer is up.

  34. Cassie

    Boy that’s some glaring error! Mine is up!

  35. T.F.P.

    I posted my answer this afternoon:

    http://www.firepitblog.com/2007/10/18/btt-typography/

  36. Callista

    Mine’s here.

  37. Simon

    Up at http://stuck-in-a-book.blogspot.com/2007/10/bokking-thorugh-thrusday.html
    !

  38. --Deb

    Of course, the original question is mine, so there’s that example, but how about this one?

  39. BookGal

    I’m up.

  40. Literary Feline

    Mine is up.

  41. Susan Higginbotham

    Too lazy to make a blog right now, so I’ll just mention mine here. The back cover of my paperback copy of Sharon Penman’s Falls the Shadow describes the book as “a tail of pageantry and grandeur that is as unforgettable as it is real.” Ouch!

  42. Susan Helene Gottfried

    This is a familiar topic to me. A few links for you to follow within the post. Have fun with them!

    http://westofmars.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html#2658356708334209865

  43. Lesley

    I should also tell you all about the poor fellow in Chicago, keen to demonstrate his love for his hometown, who left a tattoo parlour only to discover they’d written ‘CHI TWON’ on him (Chi Town, for those who live elsewhere, is an affectionate moniker for Chicago). I read about this in the Chicago Tribune last March. th errport went on to say the man was suing the tattoo Parlour for damages because of the humiliation and public ridicule this stuff-up had subjected him to!

  44. Lesley

    Forgive my typo (above). My fingers are too fast for my keyboard. (Oh yeah! Tell us another one!) My last sentence should read: The report went on to say …

  45. Veggiemomof2

    Mine’s Up!

  46. Meep

    I didn’t post this anywhere, but the worst I’ve noticed was the “ancestor” thing in some of the original printings of Chamber of Secrets. Instead of saying that Tom Riddle was the last living descendant of Salazar Slytherin, Dumbledore said he was the last remaining ancestor. whoops.

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