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[simont]

Goodness. Never had that happen to me before.

In eight years of being an independent adult, there have of course been many occasions on which I've had to take something I bought back to the shop because it was faulty. However, one type of item I've never before had to return is that single simplest and most successful entertainment device known to mankind, the one with the fewest moving parts and the least embedded high technology, the book.

But it's happened now, and thankfully I still have the receipt from my shopping trip a week or two ago. My copy of Brotherhood of the Wolf has a second copy of pp 37-84 in place of pp 517-564 – even the page numbers reflect this.

I do hope it's a one-off and not a problem with the whole print run; I found this out after reading the first 516 pages, at which point the book is just getting to the climax, so I'd really hate to take it back to Borders and find they couldn't replace it for me because all their other copies were the same!

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[antinomy.livejournal.com]

I had a copy of Excession a few years ago where every 20th or so side was blank. I'd bought it six months before I actually got around to readiing it and certainly didn't have the receipt by the time I noticed, but Waterstones replaced it for me no questions asked, even though the cover price had gone up a pound in the mean-time.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I had that happen with a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo; all the other copies in the shop had the same defect, and I ended up finishing the book from a Web copy.

[doseybat.livejournal.com]

exactly the same thing happened to me with the thrid harry potter! i was far too lazy to change the book, so i have read the beginning and the end but not the middle. which still leads to occasional confusion when reading the latter books..

[senji.livejournal.com]

Happened to me twice now.

Haven't decided what to do with the copy of Earth Abides with the problem which I can't remember where I got it from, which has that. Also I have a second copy without the bug.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

It happens. I have a similarly broken copy of Slow Chocolate Autopsy, though thankfully that book is so damn strange I don't think it really matters.

Also a copy of Aldous Huxley's Limbo in which one story stops and another begins halfway through, perfectly grammatically so you don't notice immediately.