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Apprehensive-Cry-376 t1_itmj76j wrote

As an avid reader for (consults a calculator) 66 years, I can tell you that yes, the frequency of typos has indeed increased. Greatly.

I recently read a book that had been re-released by the author because he was angry with what editors had previously done to his story, as he explained in a long preface. Well, that book read like it had been written for an 8th grade writing class. Authors should not edit their own work for the same reasons programmers don't do QA for their own code.

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ChaserNeverRests t1_itnraog wrote

Thanks, I was going to say they're much more common now, but I wasn't sure if I was just now more aware of them (I'm an editor now, but I sure as heck wasn't anything more than a student when I first started reading).

And don't even get me started on self-published books...

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