Disjointed Digression

It appears that some of the new Harry Potter books were misprinted.  As in they are missing some pages.  Some were missing as many as 30 pages.

From the article:
“Printing and distributing 12 million copies of a book is a Herculean task, and it is not surprising that some books would have printing errors,” Scholastic spokeswoman Sara Sinek said in a statement.”

She said that as of Tuesday, the company had only heard of “a few hundred” instances of books with missing pages.

Sinek said Scholastic is happy to replace any book with a defect and advised customers to take defective books back to the place where they were purchased.

Leanne Greer, 36… said she finished reading page 306, then discovered the next 33 pages of the book were missing.

“I just kind of freaked out,” said Greer, a Purdue University graduate with degrees in elementary education and English. “My husband said, ‘Why are you screaming?’ He said ‘I thought one of the kids was hurt.’”

Luckily for Greer, she had a backup for her store-bought copy; she had ordered another copy online.

“I’m just that psychotic about it,” she said.

I think this line sums it up “I’m just that psychotic about it”. 

I’ll admit I read the first book and I watched the second movie.  Oddly enough I can’t make it through the first movie, or the second book. The only reason I read the book/saw the movie was because the woman I was dating at the time was really into Harry Potter.  So I was being supportive, and no, I was not doing research for some sort of sexual roleplaying! I don’t need to wear a pointy hat and hold a wand in the bedroom!  But I digress… 

The lady mentioned in the article bought a “back-up” copy of a book.  It’s not like she couldn’t go to her nearest Evil Wal-Mart(™) and pick up another copy, or just take the damaged one back to where she bought it, if she wasn’t keeping it as a collectors item.

My theory that people are fucking nuts is being confirmed more and more each day!

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