I've always been an active reader, I mean, at least, one or two books per month. But since a couple of months ago I started noticing printing/typing errors a lot, even in books I've already read. I now detect instantly if a word is wrongly formed or if a word is repeated (like "the the house"), and even if I ever noticed such mistakes they never bothered me as they do now. Now I can't help to stop reading and pay great attention to the fact that there is a mistake in the text and it kinds of bugs me to the extent of making me lose the thread of what is being said. Does this happens to anyone else?

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in the text and it kinds of bugs me to the extent of making me lose the thread of what is being said.

Does this happens to anyone else?

Yes. No. Um... What were you asking?

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in the text and it kinds of bugs me to the extent of making me lose the thread of what is being said.

Does this happens to anyone else?

Yes. No. Um... What were you asking?

English is not my first language. Besides I said reading, not writing.

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Does this happens to anyone else?

No. I've trained myself, to be able to comprehend texts with spelling, and grammar errors, over the years.

I think I'm hypersensitive to such mistakes. [smile]

While it's helpful in some ways (e.g., I rarely have any trouble writing papers for school), it's also frustrating in different ways. Some very useful or entertaining books are nevertheless filled with grammatical or typographical errors, and this sensitivity diminishes my ability to make the most of such books.

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English is not my first language. Besides I said reading, not writing.

I suppose I should have ended my post with a :p

One of my otherwise-reliable textbooks makes the claim that the C++ equivalents of malloc() and free() are new and free. I was not quite sure as to how to respond to that.

If you can't tolerate grammatical errors in this day and age . . .

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English is not my first language. Besides I said reading, not writing.

So you don't read your own posts before posting them? :D

I see mistakes all the time. In newspapers, in books, in blogs, in forum posts (a LOT in forum posts), all over the place, often by native speakers. Sure, it bothers me a little. Even things like not capitalizing personal pronouns referring to the other party in written German letters, which is not only wrong but also rude. There's not much I can do about it, so what I do instead is try to avoid making mistakes myself when communicating (and I do make them, make no mistake [super-lame pun fully intended]).

You have started coding a lot a couple of months ago, your bug-detector has been developed. Now you find bugs everywhere, and so in the books you read as well.