back when i was a kid (and no, they didn't write on clay
tablets then!), i could read 10 books without finding a
spelling error. nowadays its rare to go a hundred pages
without finding one. i don't think there's any doubt that
quality is getting sacrificed for cash.
i will say that the errors i see are almost all spelled
correctly... they're just the wrong words, like "peak"
instead of "peek", like somebody mentioned earlier, evidence
of a computer spell-checker, minus the human
copyreader.
from the little i know of book collecting, it used to be an
exciting novelty to find a book with an error in it.
miker
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