I was reading a so-so ebook and the writing was not too bad although there were more than a few typos. Fortunately, they were mostly the kinds of typos anyone can make—they seemed to just show that the publisher didn’t proofread the thing, not that the author had a tenuous grasp on the English language. But then I came to the one that tipped the scales from slightly annoyed tolerance into severe disappointment with both author and publisher:
