I’ve noticed recently that Kindle books sometimes have lots of typos. And I’m also noticing that they’re most likely because of shotty OCR than human error (is it possible it was easier to OCR a book than just get the source files?). For example:

“I suppose there’s nothing wrong with my not having a life. So many people no longer have Hues that you really have to wonder…

So I’m sitting in this coffee shop drawing the letters in my head.

Hues
Lives

Ah, I see what happened here. Nice try, computer.

Then I feel a little weird for noticing, and for a second I’m bummed that I let my brain take me out of the story. But then I remember I’m reading Microserfs, and I actually feel great about it. It was a thematically appropriate typo, and I think I responded the way the book would have wanted me to. Then I logged onto free wifi to tumble about it, because we live in the future, and this is how we’re running out the clock.