Found a weird typo in my book club's copy of The Great Gatsby

I was flipping through page 42 of our edition last night and noticed it says 'boats' instead of 'boats' in the famous green light passage. Did anyone else's copy have this, or did I just find a misprint that's been sitting in our library for 7 years?

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ryanburns21d ago

Man you're really gonna deep dive a typo in a used book club copy? It's probably just a printing error from like 50 years ago, not exactly a literary mystery.

the_rose21d ago

Wait is nobody else asking the obvious question here @ryanburns - did you actually check if 'boats' was a typo or if your brain just autocorrected it twice? Sometimes our eyes play tricks on us when we read familiar stuff, especially with words that look like themselves.