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It’s no secret Taylor Swift fans love a good surprise — and The Eras Tour Book delivers plenty of them. Just…not the kind Swifties were hoping for. Ever since the $40 coffee-table volume was released on Black Friday, disappointed fans have taken to social media to vent about what’s now being called The Errors Tour Book. The glorified concert merch is full of blurry, low-res images (which some have alleged are just screenshots of the Eras Tour movie), amateur-level graphic design (in the words of one Redditor, it looks like “something a fan made on Shutterfly”), and enough typos to make us wonder if Swift’s cats accidentally stepped on her keyboard before it went to print. And because Swifties are a, shall we say, passionate bunch, there are minutes-long TikToks and entire Reddit threads dedicated to the many glaring oversights in The Book That Clearly Escaped Tree Paine’s Sign-Off, including: missing pages, spreads where Swift disappears into the book’s crease, misspelled song names, passages that surely the very literary Swift couldn’t have written, and way too many mistakes on the page devoted to the surprise-songs section of the tour.

Of course, the number of egregious errors is particularly off-brand for the Duchess of Details, who famously weaves meticulously coded messages and Easter eggs into virtually every project she drops. So naturally, we can’t help but wonder: How could there be so many careless slipups in such a high-profile book? Was the book just a slapdash attempt to cash in on holiday sales? Or, is this an unintended consequence of bypassing traditional publishers? (In true Swift fashion, she opted to self-publish the book.) And last but certainly not least: Will Swift’s team republish new ones? TBD, but it seems unlikely — given that some 800,000-plus copies were sold over Thanksgiving weekend, making it the one of the biggest nonfiction book debuts on record. Yes, even with all the typos. Fingers crossed tonight’s Eras Tour finale goes smoother.