Printer's Error is pretty much exactly what it says on the cover, a series of interesting anecdotes about the printing business. The stories go from Gutenberg to mass market booksales in the 1920s, and are about legacies of rare books today and the weirdness of the publishing business. The figures alternate between the mainstream, Gutenberg and his nemesis the anti-printing monk Johannes Trithemius, Benjamin Franklin's creation of an American publishing empire, and advertising genius Edward Bernays, who made books cool to own. And some figures are more marginal-genius poet, engraver, and mystic William Blake, or T. J. Cobden-Sanderson of the 'Beautiful Books' movement, and his destruction of the famous 'Dove font'.

The stories are interesting, but the writing style is atrocious. I don't watch Pawn Stars, so I don't know how much of this is Romney's voice, and if it works on TV, but every line has a joke, and the jokes bomb harder than the 8th Air Force. It's just groaner after groaner after groaner, like a third-tier Cracked.com article. There's a decent book in here, but it's buried under the textual equivalent of Miracle Whip. Gross.