I’m currently reading “The Number of the Beast” by Robert Heinlein. Book is from the 1980s, and there’s a completely doubled up paragraph in the book! It spans two pages but the image shows enough I think.
I had a copy of Fahrenheit 451 as a kid that suddenly had a different book in it for about ten pages or so. I’m like 5 chapters in, and all of the characters change. Same font, same size text, so I was very confused when the next page was talking about some woman cuddling on a couch with a man, and him feeling her shoulders. I figured it out finally by the page numbers being off.
It was part of a romance novel, which probably wasn’t explicit, but seemed spicy to a 10-year-old. I’d think it was a fever dream if my mom didn’t bring it up every so often (“I wrote to the publisher and gave them an earful!”). Anyway, the publisher apologized and sent us a new copy plus some coupons. I wish we’d kept the book, though.
I thought something like that had happened when I first read Cloud Atlas, but nope - that’s just how it’s written. I loved it once I understood.
I had a Book about Java with a code demonstrating to get prime numbers.
The code just outputted odd numbers.
I have a cookbook with about the middle third of the book is bound on the wrong side so the page numbers reverse for a bit.
Otherwise related to text issues the early versions of one of the last two Jim Butcher books that came out back to back has a moment with Dresden interacting with a character named Sanya and there’s a typo where it’s printed “Santa” instead. And given you have met “Santa” in the Dresden files by this point it took me a moment to realize it was a typo and not that the other character had just shown up.
I had a copy of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator when I was a kid which repeated an entire chapter somewhere in the middle of the book. I think the one where the Knids are first seen.
Dunno if this is really what you’re going for, but my hardcover copy of Stephen King’s It is missing an entire signature. Jumps from page 790 to 823. Cleanly, not ripped or cut out or anything, just smooth gone.
I wrote to the publisher (on paper… probably with a typewriter) and they mailed me a new copy.
That’s a long signature.
