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| wohali:
Thanks everyone - false alarm. Glad to clear that up. |
| Cerebus:
Casting my ex-printer's and book binder's eye over the book I'd say the following. * Yes, the paper is thin but I think that's a feature. The paper a nice smooth, strong coated stock and is, I suspect, quite expensive. The coating (china clay) is there to improve the opacity; without it this would be what's known in the trade as 'bible paper'. It's a 500 page book but is only 17mm thick (excluding covers). By happenstance I've got another hardback next to it that's exactly the same depth but only runs to 240 pages. The X-chapters book printed on the same stock as that book would be unwieldy at twice the thickness in my opinion. * Not seeing any evidence of skew on my copy. I'd have expected any signatures with this fault to have gone in the bin at the printers, they normally literally stick out of the pile as they are being printed and are the result of a sheet misfeeding with a slight yaw. (The signatures are printed as flat sheets called an imposition, 16 pages to a side in the case of this book, and then folded repeatedly down to make a signature of 32 consecutive pages. * Top margin being narrower than the bottom margin? That's pretty much the standard book layout. * Yes, there are 2 blank white pages after the last index page. This is to make the number of pages in the last signature up to 32 pages. |
| thm_w:
Seems like there is nowhere to buy the ebook or PDF yet. Or some sort of direct donation to the authors. I have no interest in owning the physical book. |
| julianhigginson:
--- Quote from: julianhigginson on February 04, 2020, 02:05:06 am ---Just saw this new thread activity now. Ordered! It's a really nice feeling to be able to order direct from the publisher without using amazon. --- End quote --- WOW that was fast. Less than 72 hours from placing the order to receiving the book. Looks like my CUP order came from the Australian CUP office... Australian tax invoice and everything. They must have had it ready in stock here, and sent it straight out. (despite only having it on their site as a preorder..) Now to get some time off projects to actually read it.. :-) |
| Black Phoenix:
--- Quote from: thm_w on February 06, 2020, 11:56:30 pm ---Seems like there is nowhere to buy the ebook or PDF yet. Or some sort of direct donation to the authors. I have no interest in owning the physical book. --- End quote --- Yes that is my gripe about it too. The Art of Electronics exists in eBook, but both the Learning the Art of Electronics and this new one X-Chapters they don't exist in electronic format. Release and I will buy them in a flash. |
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