Mantissa Etherbright's Blog: Mayhem and Angst - Posts Tagged "phobia"

Happy New Year everyone. I may be late to this party, but I have an excuse. As some of you may know, despite the robust health of my adorable muses, I haven't been writing a whole lot. But I have been proof-reading... And my report about that is a trifle sad. (Not as sad as, for example, the pathetic state of the union under kleptocratic rule, but a bit sad.) I refer, of course, to the sadness of typographical errors in printed books. Oh, alright... They're not sad per se because they're only typographical errors which are an abstraction even in books and they don't have feelings, but the existence of those typographical errors in those books makes me feel both sad and annoyed.

Yes, I have a mild case of typographicalerrorphobia or whatever it's called, and I can't abide having copies of my books on my own shelves if they have known typos in them, no matter how small. Is that weird? Perhaps so, but definitely not as weird as some phobias, I'm sure, but still...

I currently have copies of the following books on my shelves, each with [one or two] known minor typos in them.







Now that I have procured new copies which aspire to be typo-free, I'm trying to give away these imperfect books to good homes, for free. Postage included.

If you want one, just PM me and let me know where I can send one or more of them, as long as you don't live on the moon or somewhere else that would result in peculiarly high postage costs. The books are all in perfect condition, except that the typos are marked in pencil and they've been scarlet lettered on the lower edge. (The scarlet marks aren't visible when they're sitting properly on a shelf, only if they're slouching.)

Any of these mildly imperfect books that haven't found a new home by Valentine's Day will be torn apart and shredded before being burned at the stake.