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So I picked up a book on the charity table in my local supermarket and found this...

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sockrage · 23/05/2016 08:32

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So I picked up a book on the charity table in my local supermarket and found this...
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Perfectlypurple · 23/05/2016 10:34

hosta I know! It's mad isn't it? I have also read books with bare instead of bear, there instead of their and so on.it drives me mad. I wonder if books are proof read anymore.

Unicorn1981 · 23/05/2016 21:02

Ha ha. That's excellent. I remember once getting a Jill Mansell book put the library and this man had written a sort of lonely hearts ad with his phone number under it!

sockrage · 23/05/2016 21:23

No way Unicorn Shock

Wonders if someone rang it?!

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Jofo · 23/05/2016 21:26

Too funny!

PerspicaciaTick · 23/05/2016 21:38

Someone at our library is working their way through the Classics section and writing irate margin notes about racist language. Huck Finn was covered and rather missed the point of the book.

Wdigin2this · 23/05/2016 21:56

Seriously weird!

Cagliostro · 23/05/2016 22:22

We once had that in a returned library book :o

Cagliostro · 23/05/2016 22:27

Ah. I see I'm not the only one :o

blitheringbuzzards1234 · 24/05/2016 08:12

Before you mentioned the title of the book I was expecting it to be something like 'Trainspotting'.

I once got a library book out and there was written in pencil on the front page, 'this book has been tampered with'. It was an art book and someone had cut out lots of the pictures, presumably to hang on their walls.

Izzabellasasperella · 24/05/2016 08:17

We had a teacher who ripped out the first page of Kes in every text book at school because of the swearing! Shock

FruStefanOla · 24/05/2016 08:57

Does anyone remember the thread from a year (or two?) ago when the OP had bought a book from a charity shop and found a letter inside it? The letter was from an American girl to an English guy - they'd obviously met whilst he was staying in America over the Summer and the girl must have given the guy the book as a leaving present; the letter was quite sentimental and she'd asked him to keep in touch with her - but, whether accidentally or deliberately, he no longer had her book or her letter.

MITCHELL33 · 24/05/2016 09:38

I finished reading Barbara Tate West End Girls and on Sunday left it on the table at the back of the church I use [you put a donation in the box to take the book}Some of the contents of that will certainly enlighten some of the parishioners!

sockrage · 24/05/2016 10:13

Love the sound of that Fru

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FruStefanOla · 24/05/2016 10:23

It was rather sad really, sockrage. The OP of that thread was asking whether she should contact the American girl; the general consensus was 'no', what if the English guy had deliberately got rid of the book and her letter? Or maybe the book had been lost or stolen? Or maybe he had a girlfriend here in the UK and the girlfriend had disposed of it in a fit of jealousy?

sockrage · 24/05/2016 11:05

Oh blimey. I was thinking it was an old letter. Didn't realise it was a present time letter.

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FruStefanOla · 24/05/2016 11:08

Yes, unfortunately Sad

Paris7 · 24/05/2016 11:09

Yes Perfectlypurple, it is depressing beyond belief, especially when you yourself are the author. I recently had a manuscript professionally proofread before submitting it to my publisher, on publication during a last minute (publisher's) change of format, some illiterate arsehole had retyped and littered it with typos, serious errors and quite simply, terrible spelling. And then my 'editor' let it all slip through, and it was published. The publisher omitted to send me a copy so I had to buy one from W.H. Smith to see what had happened. I could have cried. I've corrected copies myself before giving them to friends and that makes me wonder how many other authors have corrected their publisher's howlers? Maybe we scriblers sit in public libraries quietly correcting our own books?

Griffey · 24/05/2016 15:07

This reminded me of an older sales director of our company. I work in the automotive industry and so we used to get sent a lot of lads mags with cars, bikes and lots of scantily clad women. So he would flick through the pages and put post it notes over boobs so as not to offend the female staff. Hilarious!

Tiopyn · 24/05/2016 15:22

Griffey - now I'm picturing the men lifting up the post-its like they're reading one of those children's books with flaps! Grin

barbarossa · 24/05/2016 19:16

This censoring of a book is another example of the intolerance and self-righteousness which is so common these days. Someone believes that their opinion, their ideals, their concepts etc are totally and utterly correct, perfect, spot-on and cannot possibly be wrong because they KNOW they are

right. Any other opinion, any idea contrary to theirs MUST be wrong, cannot be tolerated, must not be broadcast, MUST be silenced, crushed and never see the light of day.
Other examples from these days are :
cyclists who block traffic by slow riding two abreast because they KNOW they have the moral high ground as their vehicles have zero-emissions ( apart from all the hot-air from the green lobby ) ; students at universities who refuse to allow anyone to speak if their ideas or politics differ from the students ideas and politics ; left-wingers who have made their doctrine the accepted orthodoxy and made left-wing lunacy the new centre-ground. Anyone who is even slightly right of centre, especially on things like immigration, is refused a platform and dismissed as a racist. Left-wingers are the new Nazis insomuch as they actively promote censorship ( like your book censor ) if something or someone disagrees with their opinions.

RhiWrites · 24/05/2016 20:03

Er what? I'm a left winger and an author and definitely not into censorship.

And the right wing aren't refused a platform. The country is run by a Consevative government!

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