I get anywhere from six to a couple dozen books in the mail every day. It's amazing. I have the best job in the universe. However, the law of averages dictates that some of those books must be totally awful—the kind of awful that you can spot on sight. When those sorts of awful books come into the office, I put them on Cienna's desk. Over the years, the books have amassed into five large stacks. You can still see Cienna over the stacks, unfortunately, but it's really become quite an impressive museum of publishing mistakes. Dan Savage has dubbed it "Hell's Lending Library."

One of the newest additions to Hell's Lending Library is Should This Octopus Have Fewer Legs?, a collection of those posters you put on lamp posts and community bulletin boards featuring little tear-away tabs at the bottom, traditionally with phone numbers written on them. These are novelty versions of those posters, with "funny" themes, like one where the main poster says "Take My Breath Away" and each of the little tabs at the bottom reads "Breath." One of our staffers called Octopus the worst book in Hell's Lending Library, but I don't think that's true; there's a lot of terrible shit in there. Anwyay, here's the cover:

Note the subtitle: And Over 40 Other Funny Signs for People to Ponder, Post, and Rip Away. Today, I opened the book up to see this on the title page:

On the inside of the book, the subtitle reads And 25 Other Funny Signs for People to Ponder, Post, and Rip Away. This is how little the publisher cares about the book: They can't even maintain the correct number of posters inside the book from one page to the very next page. (For the record, there are 42 posters in the book—44 if you include the two blank pages for readers to make their own posters—so the cover's subtitle claims the correct number.) It's that remarkable inattention to detail that really makes a book stand out, even from the churning brimstone depths of Hell's Lending Library.