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It bothers me when I'm reading a PUBLISHED novel and I find grammar mistakes. Usually I take a pencil and underline the mistake. I don't know why, but it makes me feel better, I suppose.
For instance, today I was reading The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. About 80 pages into the book I read this sentence:

Must HAVE!
There is the possibility that it was a vernacular (am I using this word the right way?) thing, as it was someone speaking at the time. However, even when speaking, "must've" sounds the same as "must of". (I am still reading the book, however. It's very good so far, and it was just one mistake).

And, of course, I am was reading the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. I was reading the fifth or sixth book (I can't quite remember) and I kept finding tiny errors, such as where commas could have been, but weren't, and so on. I stopped reading. (Of course, this was also due to the fact that Richard Rahl and Kahlan had both turned into huge Mary-Sues/Gary-Stus.)

Hopefully I put this in the correct sub-forum.

I don't have any examples off the top of my head, but I do know that mistakes can be irritating. I don't think it ruins a book, but it definitely knocks me out of the book and back to the real world where I can feel anguish at it.

But when people are speaking, I think bad grammar should almost be a necessary part. Not many speak like the way characters do in books, so my opinion is simply that everyone in a book is a valedictorian from Harvard or a suppressed genius. I can count on my fingers how many people I know speak like a book (me being one of them).

One time I was reading a book and I found three errors in one day. It gets me so annoyed in frusturated. One of the mistakes was not capitalizing a name!

God! You people seem to think that grammar and punctuation is everything! I mean, come on! If your reading a good book that you like then why would it matter if there was a spelling mistake or a comma or period missing? Can't you look past that and enjoy the book without being a grammar Nazi? I've read more then a hundred books! And I've found mistakes and errors in almost all of them, it doesn't bother me, because I can see past a mistake and enjoy the book for what it is, a piece of art. If everything was perfect then this wouldn't be Earth, nothing can ever be perfect in this place, EVER!. It shouldn't ruin the book just because of a shitty editing job. Authors put their time and lives into these and you should be able to realize that nobody is perfect and mistakes shouldn't burn a hole in a book. Ugh. . .

Why does it matter? Why would you question the credibility of an author/editor because of one or two mistakes in a book? You think your so high and mighty? Why don't you write a book or edit a fullscale work of someone else? You're getting all irritated because someone did something that's not perfect. When in reality, none of you could do nearly as well as they did. You write a book yourself and see how easy it is, you edit a book before it gets close to publishing and see how well you do. You just don't get it! Your all criticizing people for what you could never do! You think this is okay? Walk in these people's shoes for a day and you won't have s**t to say, none of you have the right to judge these people! Do you gain anything from being so callous towards them? Why don't you just try and step back for a moment and just look straight at what you've been doing. And tell me, do you think you're right or wrong?

You've written a real book? Really? Show me. And your taking this knowledge from real life experience? YOU'RE THIRTEEN! You think editing your own book is worth s**t? You think editing short stories for a friend is worth said s**t? Editing anything a book, poem, short story or even an essay is very hard and taxing work! Believe me, my father is a lawyer. He has to write and edit extremely important legal documents. Do you think I don't know what it takes to edit or write something? No matter who writes something it's always gonna have mistakes and you can't edit your own work! At least not for the final edit, you have editors do that. And editors don't make a whole lot of money, they have to get by just like everyone else. Tell me, what is the name of your book? How long is it? I'm writing a book too, but I'm not dumb enough to completely edit it myself because I'm not qualified, you have to go to college to even get close to makeing a book grammatically correct. The English language is an incredibly complicated language, one of the most complicated languages in the world! It's up there with Japanese. English is basically impossible to completely master.

I have found several mistakes in published books, and honestly, it mostly makes me feel embarrassed! Seriously, I think, "how can SO many people have read and edited this book, and still let it get published in this condition"? I feel embarrassed for the poor writer who is made out to look bad, when really, they have a whole team of people who should have caught it. Sometimes the misprints actually create confusion for me as a reader, and I have to re-read the passage before I realize that there was a mistake.
Usually it bugs me, but doesn't ruin the overall experience for me.

I remember last year, when I was reading a book, the book had errors on every page. There were spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes, and repeated sentences. When I see books that have many mistakes, it makes the book pointless to read. If the author can't go over her work after writing it, she must not have thought the book was very fascinating. If you ever write a book, please check over your work and make sure there aren't a lot of mistakes. It makes the reader focus more on the mistakes than on the book itself.