How much does it bother you when authors get easily checked facts wrong?

[Cait]

Janet snakehole gives Jennifer Weiner's Big Summer a one-star review for a lot of reasons, including easily fact-checked inaccuracies like when the sun sets on a summer night in the Northern hemisphere. "A simple google search (remember, accuracy enthusiast is nicer than pedantic jerk) tells me that it sets at 8:15."   (Cannonball Read 13)

[Raven]

I think it depends on the author/subject. I might be less likely to have the sunset issue, but if you said something like Elvis was a Gemini, I probably would be upset. But if you said the moon is in the ocean, yeah, not going there. It depends on where ones expertise is that probably decides what we focus us. Of course, there is then the "artistic license" aspect of combining a time line or simplifying it for clarity or smoothness that I'm on the fence on. I am still not sure if that is the best way to right non-fiction/facts.