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| wohali:
Just got my copy from amazon.ca ("Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca.") I'm worried this is a counterfeit. Can anyone who ordered theirs from CUP, or amazon.com help confirm? I'm seeing: * Paper is extremely thin, as compared to my copy of AoE 3rd ed (1st printing). I can easily see through the paper to the other side's printing, and the page beneath that. I can barely see through the page in AoE 3rd ed, and only to the printing on the other side; I can't see the page below that. * Skewed printing on many pages. For example, measuring from the top of the paper to the top of the grey box on the table of contents header, the left side is ~1mm lower than the right side. It's minor, but visible. * On every page, the top margin is a lot smaller than the bottom margin. Typical top margin is about 1.4mm, typical bottom margin is about 2mm. * 2 blank white pages after the last index page (don't know if this is normal or not Most of the other "tell-tale" signs as posted at https://artofelectronics.net/the-book/counterfeit-editions/ are not present. The "fi" ligature on the title page is present, the cover on the spine is not wrinkled, pages are not stuck together at the edges, pages do not extend into the gutter, the black end-pages are smooth and not glue-smudged, the photographs are clear, and the price was CDN$ 68.95. If this is how the book is - that's fine, I can live with thin paper and a bit of skew. But if it's not how it should be, I want to be sure this goes back to Amazon (and I'll order a replacement directly from CUP!) |
| gnavigator1007:
Sounds ok. Ordered mine from CUP and is same as you describe yours though I had not really noticed other than the pages being a bit see through. Perhaps some of these things are intended to help distinguish the legit item from counterfeits :-// |
| ebastler:
--- Quote from: wohali on February 05, 2020, 10:39:16 pm ---Just got my copy from amazon.ca ("Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca.") I'm worried this is a counterfeit. Can anyone who ordered theirs from CUP, or amazon.com help confirm? I'm seeing: --- End quote --- I didn't order the X-chapters yet, but have just received a new copy of the main 3rd edition volume. (The "improved" version, whch Amazon.co.uk currently sells at a low price, as discussed in another thread here. I wanted a copy with the known errors corrected.) Compared to my 1st printing of the 3rd edition, I can confirm that the paper of the new printing is indeed thinner. The book is a few mm thinner than the original printing, and more noticeably the printing on the reverse side is indeed much more visible with the new paper. The top margin is smaller than the bottom one; that's probably intentional. (It's 1.4 cm, not mm, right?). But no skewed printing that I would have noticed. So I guess the new choice of paper is a general CUP decision. Not an improvement. The new book is certainly usable, but the original printing is more pleasant to read. I am torn which of the two copies I should make my main go-to book now... |
| tggzzz:
My copy from Amazon UK... * my copy is like that; I hadn't noticed until I explicitly looked for it. Book's weight is 1140g * there is a slight effect like that, but nowhere near 1mm * my copy is like that. It is consistent, easily seen by riffling through the pages and observing the top horizontal line barely moves. I imagine a counterfeit would be less consistent * my copy is like that. Many books are like that, it being a characteristic of book binding Overall, I wouldn't worry, and I doubt decent counterfeits would be available so quickly. In a short time, maybe. |
| rdl:
The last new book I bought from Amazon had very thin pages. It also had a solid color sticker on the front cover that seemed rather pointless and I wondered why it was there. So I peeled it off. Under it was printed: Indian Edition ---------------------- For Sale in India Only |
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