A student just came up to the circulation desk holding an open book. "Excuse me," he said, "I have a question. Why does it have errors?"

I took the book from him and glanced down at the page. "What do you mean?"

"Like the year, punctuation . . . is it just typos?"

"Yeah," I said, and handed the book back to him.

"Okay, thank you," he said, and placed the book in the return cart.