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50 Times Book Lovers Were Horrified By What They Saw And Just Had To Share It (New Pics)
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Book lovers, we’ve all been there. You’re cozied up with a brand-new book, ready to escape into another world, when bam!—a typo smacks you in the face. Or worse, you turn a page, only to realize it’s missing entirely. Nothing shatters the bliss of reading quite like these bookish betrayals. Sure, we can laugh about them later, but in the moment? It’s enough to make you dramatically close the book.
Today, the Bored Panda team scoured the internet to find some of the most triggering book crimes that readers have shared online. Whether it’s peculiar mistakes in a children’s book (yes, the irony) or entire missing pages, these moments are enough to make any bibliophile scream. Keep reading to see if you can stomach these bookish horrors! And don’t forget to check out our interview with Karishma Kothari, a first-time author who knows a thing or two about the struggles of writing, and the inevitable (but painful) tiny mistakes that slip through.
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#1
Proofreading This Book Couldn't Have Been That Hard
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#2
Checking In Books At The Circulation Desk At My School's Library, When Suddenly
#3
Brought A Book To Read On The Bus. All Of The Pages Are Out Of Order
#4
This 200 Us Dollar Textbook Is Just A Printout Of The Online Version Complete With Useless Hyperlinks And Video Thumbnails
#5
This Illustration From A Children's Passover Book
#6
The Worst Bit Is That Its From A Math Book
#7
Colouring Book My In-Laws Got My Daughter. It's All AI Images
I know it's fantasy, but I'm not sure even pretend unicorns should have horns on the side of their heads. As for the amount of extra legs throughout the book, it's got to the point you can't tell what to color in and in what color.
#8
This Book That Explains Covid-19 To Kids Has People Wearing Their Masks Incorrectly
#9
This Typo For N In My Nephew’s Alphabet Board Book. The Editor Had Only 26 Words To Review... And Somehow This Was Missed
#10
This Board Book For Kids Is Pretty Confusing!
#11
My Wife Ordered A Beading Pattern Book, But Instead Of Patterns It Only Contains AI Written Instructions On How To Make Such A Book
#12
I Bought A Second Hand Book For My Kid And Didn’t Look Closely At The Cover. It’s In Latin. We Don’t Speak Latin
#13
About Finishing The Book Only To Discover That 10 Pages Are Missing
#14
Found This At The Back Of My 3 Yr Old's Counting Book
Emailed the publisher, they defended by saying look inside the book, the numbers are correct. I said then what's stopping you from printing the write ones on the cover?
#15
They Tried To Fit The Title Of The Book On The Spine In The Same Format As It Is On The Cover. It Didn't Work
#16
Children's Book Error
#17
Came Across This In My Literature Book At School
#18
I’m Reading A Book On Forensics And It Has A Very Realistic Image Of A Fly On Every Page
#19
So I Found This In My Friend's Mom's Nursery Rhyme Book, From When She Was Little
#20
This Book Doesn't Teach You How To Draw The Number 8 Correctly
Bought this book to help my boy learn his letters and numbers. The guide for 8 doesn't work as the arrows are incorrect!
#21
What The Flip. So There's This Guy That Always Has A Box With Books In Front Of His House For People To Take, Today I Found This I Almost Couldn't Contain Myself From Laughing
#22
Train On This Book Cover Isn't Even On The Rails
#23
My Son’s Book On Ocean Creatures Has Two Errors On One Page: The Octopus Is A Squid And Tortoises Aren’t Found In The Ocean
#24
The Makers Of My Swedish Book Forgot About Belgium, Luxemburg And The Netherlands
Carl Roberts 1 year ago
That's not all that's wrong. Apparently Wales & Scotland are just "England"
#25
My Senior Year Book A Few Years Back
#26
Activity From A Children's Book.. What Is This Supposed To Be?
#27
My Book Was Printed Without Any Periods Whatsoever
#28
Never Judge A Book By Its Cover
#30
Forcea Forsmt. The Actual Title Of This Book Is Forecast Form
#31
My Daughter's Little Shapes Book. Pentagon?
#33
The Text In This Children's Book Is Practically Illegible
Warren Peece 1 year ago
"My coal would be soft." It is about a person who wants to use bituminous coal to heat their house.
#34
Found This Giraffe With Five Legs In A Search And Find Book
#35
My Kiddo’s Book Has Infuriated Me On A Level That May Surpass “Mildly”
#36
How About We Rotate The Author’s Name On The Last Book? That Will Look Soo Good
#37
This Beautiful Book Cover (The Book Itself Is Pretty Good However)
#38
In The Middle Of A 9 Hour Flight I Found Out My Book Was Missing 33 Pages
#39
Amazon Is Selling Bootleg Disney Colouring Books
My wife bought this on Amazon, it's just a bound book of random low-resolution/quality coloring pages easily found on Google image search. Initiated a refund and they didn't even want it back.
Carl Roberts 1 year ago (edited)
It's not a "bootleg Disney book". Disney doesn't own the character of Rapunzel. It's in the public domain. This one is on the customer, for not understanding the difference between a public domain character, and a copyrighted Disney film (Tangled).
#40
Me And My Husband Looked For An Hour In Our Kids Coloring Book For The Word Smile. Is It Just Me Or Is It Not There?
#41
This Children's Book Gives Up On Rhyming On The Last Page
I took a picture of each page so you can get the full effect of reading the whole thing outloud, getting to the end, only for the last page to break the rules of the rest of the book. Did they not have the budget to do one more page and do rhymes for the last 4 letters?
#42
The Way You’re Supposed To Read This Book
#44
When My Book Decided To Parkour
#45
There Is No Differences Between These Two Images In My Toddlers Spot The Difference Book
#46
This Graph In A High School Year Book
#47
My Nephew Received A AI Coloring Book For Christmas
Ami Tokuda 1 year ago
1. What 14 year old colors these things? 2. The age bracket is so random.
#48
Posessed English Book
#49
BF Bought Me A Wordsearch Book That Has Only One Word In 200 Pages
Rick Seiden 1 year ago
It's upsetting that the book is exactly what it says it is? I could understand if it were a regular word find, but this is what it says on the tin.
#50
Books That Have This Much Paper Before Chapter 1 Even Starts
Bec 1 year ago
I received a management book at a work breakfast. It was already pretty thin, and has the biggest margins I have ever seen. The book itself was absolutely ridiculous (I only got through a chapter). Turns out it was from 1993 so the examples of how customer service and stores at the mall should be seemed like it was written on another planet!
#51
This Dinosaur In One Of The Kids Books At Our School. The 3D Effect Just Makes It Worse
#52
Found This Bad Boy In My Text Book
#53
My Son's Spongebob Activity Book Is Missing The Word Squidward In The Word Search
#54
I Think My Book Is Frozen
#55
My "Eng English Lish Gram Grammar Mar" Book
#56
Every Photo In This Children’s Book Has A Watermark
Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago
So they are stealing pictures that don't belong to them and then putting them into a copyrighted book. Rules are just completely out the window
#57
Found This Is My Physics Text Book
#58
One Of The Books My Toddler Got In Her Frozen Book Set
#59
This Book That I Purchased Starts On Page 23 Due To An Apparent Manufacturing Error
#61
Kids Learning Book Shows 3 Ducks For The Color Yellow. Guess They Ran Out Of Ideas
#62
This Book Has A Samurai On The Cover Instead Of A Ninja
#63
Halfway Through A Used Book And Just Noticed That Almost 70 Pages Have Been Torn Out
#64
This Coloring Book
#65
Just In The Middle Of My Book
#66
Just Bought The A Song Of Ice And Fire Box Set And The 5th Book's Design Is Slightly Different From The Rest
#67
These Books, Which I've Gotten As A Set
Janissary35680 1 year ago
Possibly cobbled together from different editions or printings. Like the "A song of ice and fire" box set just above.
#68
This Image In The New Gravity Falls Book Has Got The Quick Play Overlay On It
#69
Makes Sense
#70
I Just Bought These Books And Why Is 2 Uneven. Seriously I Ordered A Replacement
#71
There Is No Meter
From a natural gas safety themed activity book for kids handed out at a convention.
#72
Great. So Everyone Can Know This Is A Password Book
#73
This Pie Graph In My Data Text Book
#74
My Social Studies Book
#75
Typo On The First Word Of A Book
#76
This Book Has A Typo On The Front Cover "In In Which"
#77
Who's Genius Idea Was It Put Put An Ad In A Book. I Need To Have A Chat With Them
#78
My Book Came With An Uncut Page
Debby Keir 1 year ago
They all used to come like this back in the day - especially the more expensive ones.
#79
My Kid’s Coloring Book. There Isn’t A Difference That Anyone In My Family Can Find
Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 1 year ago
C looks like her eyes are different colours, but it might just be lighting. And it's not a coloring choice by the kid because this is one of those books that uses a water pen to reveal the pre-coloured image. My cousin has one of these, so I know what they look like.
#80
When You Can’t Find The Moon In Your Toddler’s Activity Book. I Swear They Forgot To Add It
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Connor N 1 year ago
I lost all my books in hurricane Ian and I still cry over it today. Everything else did not matter
Connor N 1 year ago
I lost all my books in hurricane Ian and I still cry over it today. Everything else did not matter
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