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What's the weirdest typo/error you've seen in a book?
(lemmy.world)
I’m currently reading “The Number of the Beast” by Robert Heinlein. Book is from the 1980s, and there’s a completely doubled up paragraph in the book! It spans two pages but the image shows enough I think.
That's a long signature.
This is probably a joke, but for those that don't know, in bookbinding a signature is the term for the smaller groupings of pages that are attached to the spine.
https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/51f1e712-c76a-457a-8076-2125748724b8.jpeg
See how the pages are folded around each other in groups? Those are signatures.
It was a joke, but I didn't know that, so thank you for the edification.
edit: "That" being the fact offered in response to my comment. I was aware that I was making a joke.
Neat! Thanks for the info.