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I just bought this book last week and cracked it open yesterday to really beginning reading it. I'm not all the way through, but here's what I have to say so far:
First of all, it's very cute- the design, layout, images, and footnotes are all very charming. I bought it because I'm crazy about handwriting, too, so naturally I like the content as well.
However, I'm really astonished at the poor editing. Footnote numbers are wrong throughout, not lining up notes with what that which they are referring to, and at one point in particular (page 31) one of the pictures even overlaps with text. What went wrong?? Who's to blame? How does a book get printed in this kind of condition?
Granted, I'm not the world's most "active reader"- I don't buy and read books as frequently as some. However I am intelligent and do have some standards as to what I expect when I pick up a book to read it. That said, I'm highly disappointed to see a book can make it through however many stages a book certainly must go through to be published, only to come out so mistake-laden.
Great concept, well-written, fun pictures, charming content- but overall poor editing leaves me pretty dissatisfied.
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monsterpants, March 5, 2009
I just bought this book last week and cracked it open yesterday to really beginning reading it. I'm not all the way through, but here's what I have to say so far:First of all, it's very cute- the design, layout, images, and footnotes are all very charming. I bought it because I'm crazy about handwriting, too, so naturally I like the content as well.
However, I'm really astonished at the poor editing. Footnote numbers are wrong throughout, not lining up notes with what that which they are referring to, and at one point in particular (page 31) one of the pictures even overlaps with text. What went wrong?? Who's to blame? How does a book get printed in this kind of condition?
Granted, I'm not the world's most "active reader"- I don't buy and read books as frequently as some. However I am intelligent and do have some standards as to what I expect when I pick up a book to read it. That said, I'm highly disappointed to see a book can make it through however many stages a book certainly must go through to be published, only to come out so mistake-laden.
Great concept, well-written, fun pictures, charming content- but overall poor editing leaves me pretty dissatisfied.
(6 of 8 readers found this comment helpful)