Apparently it bears repeating:

PEOPLE

PLEASE, for the Love of All That Is Good & True & Right in This Universe, in This Year of Our RBG 2024,

DO NOT give a book low stars simply because there is something physically wrong with your copy.

The vendor that sold you the copy is not going to read your review. You are not harming the vendor by low-starring the book.

YOU ARE HARMING THE AUTHOR of the book, who has zero control over the physical condition of the book you have received.

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@courtcan I have to keep reminding myself DO NOT SUCCUMB TO THE REFLEX OF SUBMITTING TYPO CORRECTIONS (to ebooks)

The author probably has no way to respond or correct it, and the publisher most likely won't.

@zakalwe As an indiepub/selfpub author, I can say that I'm not against receiving typo corrections from readers.... But whether I have time or not to address any of those is a completely different matter. If it comes to choosing between fixing an old book or working on a new one, I will most likely choose the new one every time!

But yeah, traditionally published authors definitely have zero recourse for correcting errors in their books.

@courtcan Yeah, I'm with you, I absolutely will fix errors in my books if they're pointed out to me. (I need to get more beta readers, actually.)