Wand order and book

[Simon]

No: HPFGUIDX 11046

Penny wrote: "It seems that the wand order passage was corrected "around"
the 9th printing in the US and the 12th printing in the UK."

I had a bit of spare time the other day and decided to wander around a few
books stores. Got a little bored as I had 4 books on order from an online
company and a large pile of to read books and so could not justify buying
any more until I have finished the ones I have already got. So I did my
favourite activity of opening GoF to that page. I was amused to find that a
16th printing had gone back to the original order (James then Lily).
Mysterious!


Penny wrote: "I was at a party last night and easily found a group of others
who had read or were reading HP.  One woman said that she & her husband had
ordered GoF on pre-order from amazon.  Her husband got to like page 253 and
suddenly it skipped back to pages 155-157 and then ahead to pg 553. So, it
was missing a huge section in the middle.  She said she'd never seen
anything like it: he headed straight for his car & tore out all over town to
get another copy.  It seems like the publication rush also affected simple
printing compilation & binding on some of them.  Glad it wasn't me!"

I have had something similar happen to me before. I cannot remember what the
book was, but it was a paperback that had been put for a while (so I guess
knowing what books I own the it was a Terry Pratchett Discworld book). I had
the first 150 number of pages then a repeat of pages 50 to 150, before the
book skipped to page 250 and onto the end. So this is not only caused by
rushing the printing of the book. It can happen to any book.


Simon
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