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Readers flock to find errors in books, get free copies

By China Daily | China Daily | Updated: 2017-08-18 09:26

Chinese flocked in large numbers to bookstores in Beijing on Saturday, despite the heavy rain.

They were not looking to buy books but rather to find errors on pages. The first to spot the mistakes in Chinese characters in a book would get a free copy.

Reading printed books, paying attention to individual characters and looking up dictionaries seem old school in the internet era.

Readers flock to find errors in books, get free copies

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