Do errors bother you?

[Renu G]

Too many spelling and grammatical errors are very annoying and break the flow of a book. It has to be very engrossing for me to overlook them.

[finebunchofnothing]

If the plot is intriguing, I don't pay attention to errors; who cares about a missing comma if one plot twist is followed by another and I need to figure out what will happen to my favourite character? However, if the book is weak, I start noticing those small things, and they make me dislike the book even more.

[Juliana_Isabella]

If there are enough errors, it breaks the flow and removes the reader from the store. That's the opposite of what the writer should be trying to accomplish, which is immersing the reader in the world of the book. So, yes, errors can be seriously detrimental to the reading experience.

[Aniza Butt]

If the story is great, the errors don't bother me but if the story isn't interesting, they can be bothersome.

[mmm17]

I am so glad I came across this discussion. Because of a great many editing errors, I have just decided not to read a book I had chosen to review. This was the first time for me and I was a little bothered. I do not mind a few mistakes, for I make them too, but in this particular case they were soooo many that it was difficult to understand what the author meant.

[Nisha Ward]

I do get bothered by errors, but for me to drop a book because of them, I have to be taken out of the immersion of the experience. For example, errors in indie books don't bother me as much, so long as the story and characterisation is engaging, but intentional errors in regional dialects do because I find it much more difficult to read the book because of it.

[writingShannon]

Most grammar and spelling errors really don't bother me much, and so I really struggle to find them when doing reviews! However, I do go insane with factual errors, or inconsistencies in stories. For example, if the characters visit somewhere I've been, and obviously the author hasn't been there because it isn't correct. Or if the character has blue eyes in one chapter and brown in the next.

[Letora]

A few errors don't bother me. However, if there are a ton of errors, each one is pulling me out of my reading and it is extremely annoying.

[ayomie]

Errors put me off and dampens my interest in the story.

[Ragnar Lothbrok]

Not really, errors don't bother me as long as they're minimal. Personally I've read books that are honestly not professionally edited and you can tell right away by the number of errors you come across. Fortunately, the number of errors are minimal most of the times.

[Dragonsend]

Yes, honestly errors do bother me. Only when they are huge or a error as far as something that was earlier discussed in the book and then misstated later.

[lisalynn]

Yes, they bother me, but I also know that it's EXTREMELY difficult to produce a 100% perfect manuscript. The best thing about Kindle books—the author can correct these errors as they are discovered.

[srividyag1]

Yes, it irritates me to no end. Sometimes I feel like dumping a poorly edited book, yet I soldier on of the story is good enough and I need to review it. A perfectly edited book gives me utmost pleasure.

[jlynnp]

Poorly edited books are unprofessional. Unfortunately, they almost always pull me out of the action but what is worse is poorly written books. I mean a proofreader can only do so much and if you're reading a mystery with a lot of strangely constructed sentences you can't build confidence in the author being able to communicate what they need to.

[ElizaPeaks]

I used to have an English professor who, when finding an error in a book she had assigned, would tell us, "Y'all deserve better than this. This editor did you guys dirty! Can you believe them not catching that? After all these reprints?" I can accept minor errors in books that are very new or that haven't had many reprints over the years, but gosh! I was so appalled the first time that I found an error in a well-established book that had seen so many reprints!