Couldn't care less, it's COULDN'T care less!

I'm not sure why but it really annoys me when I'm reading a book and the phrase 'could care less' appears.

I think if someone has been published, they, or their editors could at least check the phraseology is correct. It's not like the commonly mis-spoken 'another thing coming' (which should be 'another THINK coming' as it is a deliberate play on the words that come before i.e. 'if you THINK that, then you have another THINK coming'.) I get that mistake, as both kind of flow logically in an illogical way, but saying 'I could care less' which effectively means you have to care some, for there to be 'less' to care about, when you mean you don't care at all just smacks of laziness to me.

As do repeated phrases for example I read a really great book but this happened twice - '...she sighed with relief, she sighed relieved...'. Actually now I'm reading that to myself, maybe I'm wrong, and the author wants to emphasise her heroine's relief by having her panting like a dog. I know that it's just bad editing, as I have written a sentence ten different ways whilst working on my Magnum Opus, and I can imagine the writer trying both versions, but surely someone should have picked this up before unleashing it onto the unwary innocent public.

Don't these authors re-read their own work? And if they can't be bothered to read it, why should I?

This rant is based mainly on the ebooks I read, and they're mostly romances, the majority of which are good, but there are two prolific writers who are just dreadful...I imagine they're like the 'Little Britain' caricature of Barbara Cartland and churn out these God-awful 'books' in one hour, no spell check, no checking to see if the plot makes sense, no attempt to give their characters likable personalities.

That said, I still have yet to finish any of the books I've attempted to write, so although I can and I have criticised I really shouldn't.