Tiny Typos, General Mistakes and Literary Disasters

Readers watch over authors with endless curiosity

Iain Spence
Books Are Our Superpower
8 min readMay 2, 2024

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Photo by Jorge Salvador on Unsplash

Famous authors’ mistakes are replicated to millions of readers in hard copy. By contrast, Medium authors sometimes receive a friendly private note from a kind reader, pointing them to a ‘the the’ or a missing full stop. We might blush or laugh at our mistake and then correct it with a sense of…

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