Horrible Binding on the Hardcover
936205
I purchased this book for my structural geology class and within a week the binding fell apart and pages fell out. I sent the original book back and got a replacement, but it happened again. This time within a few days. When I got the third book, I decided that I would not carry it in my backpack or even move it from my desk. So far it has held, but I never take it anywhere or open it for long periods of time.

The other students and the professor also had the same problem. Their books were in worse shape. My professor decided to take his out completely and place in a hard binder. It works for him, but is that really necessary.

If you plan on reselling the book, don't get this book. It will fall apart at the slightest movement.
3480009
Like the other reviewer, the binding on my copy is defective.  Turn a page and it falls out.  Amazon just supplied a replacement, and it is OK so far,  I suspect, however, many copies in this press run are bad.  The publisher should either recall and replace the entire lot or provide full refunds to all purchasers.  If the replacement starts for fall apart, I'm thinking about taking it somewhere to be spiral bound, but I don't really want to incur that cost, not do I want to be in a cycle of returns to Amazon.

From what I've been able to read (by carefully keeping the book half closed to not stress the binding in any way) the content is OK.  It has clarified several points that were confusing from the original, weak documentation from Olympus.  But some issues aren't covered very well.  Three simple examples.  1).  On the Super Control Panel, he tells us how to set Gradation, but doesn't say what it does.  2).  In the Retouch Menu section, he doesn't adequately cover the Raw retouch features: there's an overlay option here he doesn't mention (and isn't in the JPEG retouch menu).  And 3) under the Lens chapter, he doesn't go into depth on any of the non-Olympus lenses, which is a shame because some of the Panasonic choices are, I feel, superior.

1 star for the binding, and 3 starts for content, so overall 2 stars.  If you can wait for a republishing (but how can you tell?), don't by this book unless you want the risk of 120 loose leaf sheets to sort through.
4031160
The system is amazing, it's basically Only War, but tailored to Dark Heresy. It's simple and fun, one of my favorite tabletop games.

That being said, the binding for the book is atrocious. Within days, the binding fell apart with extremely careful use. You only have to flip the pages for the binding to start falling apart. Apparently this is a widespread issue, with it happening to nearly all copies of the book. I'm not sure if newer printings have fixed the issue, but my book completely fell apart within days of receiving it. I'd give this product a 5 star review if it wasn't for that - the book is basically unusable for normal gaming.

It's a shame because it's a fun game, but the book is total garbage. Shame on you FFG!
1110067
The book itself is really nice, as far as the art quality goes, but the actual physical quality of the book is awful. The spine of the book, the way the pages are placed in the hardcover, is so bad, that as soon as the book was opened, the pages ripped off at the base. Some of the pages are almost completely coming out, and i have only opened it once. I will try and see if i can either get another book, or trade out the one i have. Until then, the review is as stands.
2785622
I loved the Bible itself. Plenty of illustrations and easy words for the kids to read. The only downside was the binding. I attend a graduate school via online class option and ordered great numbers of hardcover books both from Amazon and others since my undergrad. This one got the worst binding quality I've seen. Despite the book is pretty thick and heavy, the inner paper which holds and combines the hard cover to the content pages didn't mean to work properly, and completely torn out on both front and back to reveal the glue underneath. In other words, the cover and content pages were almost torn apart. I had to use my box tape to bind them, or you just lose the covers to carry just the content pages.
2767041
You get what you pay for...Material is slightly abridged from Sakurai's revised edition (missing a chapter on relativstic QM and some sections on density matrices).

The binding is absolutely worthless! It came off after less than 10 hours of perusing the book...Appropriate for a graduate-level quantum mechanics class, found it to be clear and helpful in terms of content. However, if shelf life is a big factor when you purchase textbooks, I would recommend that you buy a hardcover copy instead!
1488094
I won't add anything about the book itself to the already great reviews written by others here, my reason for posting this review is to say that the way that the book is now bound takes away all the advantages of the book being spiral bound.  The cover on the edition that I received is a hard cover with a hard spine on the book that will not permit you folding the book over onto itself without damaging the hardcover and its spine.

It's ironic because in the book, the author writes a line, which i'll paraphrase here, that you can take this book out into the field and use the star maps by folding the book open and holding it up so that you can search for constellations and stars, but now, with this current edition's binding, you can't do this.  I am thinking of cutting the spine down the middle so that i can fold the book over, because the charts and starmaps really would be useful.  The other solution is just to leave the book undamaged and buy a separate star finder, and leave this book at home when out stargazing.
2300179
I ordered the hard cover version as a gift for someone. The quality was horrible. The binding was already torn from inside, and any attempts to even open the book would have torn it further. I had to return it. However, then I bought the paperback version, which is actually quite nice and much better quality. If you have to buy, buy the paperback version.
3779576
The recipes we've tried are decent. Not phenomenal but also not terrible. What I'd like to focus on instead is the shoddy binding. It's as if the book was bound together by a 1st grader with Elmer's Glue. It started coming apart almost as soon as we began turning pages. Now that we've used it lightly for a little while, whole sections of pages are separated from the spine. I find this cookbook very annoying to use now for this reason. The publisher clearly did not use good materials when making this book.
266575
I'm really disappointed in the binding of this book. My son has had it for 2 days and pages are falling out of the middle and there's not enough packaging tape in the world to keep this book together.
1193056
The pictures are fantastic!  But the binding is weak.  I'm sure this book won't last, especially with a three year old flipping through it.  The pages are stitched in with stitches that are about 3/4 inch long, so the pages are a bit wobbly, and I know it will only be a matter of time before the pages get worn around the stitches and eventually fall out.  So I am disappointed in the quality of the binding.  But the book's content is beautiful.

When I ordered this, I was confused by the red lines all over the product image.  Turns out they are the spots where glitter has been glued to the cover.  The glitter is clear/white, not red.  I have no idea why they used red to highlight that fact, because it really does not look good at all.
1496180
The cover/binding of my book is cutoff to where you can't read anything above "confident" on the front, and part of the description from the back. Then when you open the book not only is it printed upside down but THE WRONG BOOK is inside the cover. I didn't know I ordered "President of the Whole Fifth Grade".
1771133
The story is good, but this is the worst binding for a book that I've every purchased.  Each page falls out as I read it.  I've tried taping and gluing it myself, but this isn't working.  I have NEVER had this problem with any book I've ever purchased anywhere.  It's extremely annoying.  Having said this, the story itself is good.  Otherwise, I would have thrown it away.
4861667
Like other reviewers I am completely enthusiastic about this book. I can't begin to describe how it enriches my spiritual life everyday. I don't know how to add to what has already been written about the value of the content.

However, I feel compelled to write this review because this paperback edition is so horribly bound. The binding cracks and the pages start to fall out under even the most gentle use. This is a big problem because you will want to read this book every day for the rest of your life. Please do not buy this paperback edition. Buy the leather bound edition: http://www.amazon.com/Divine-Intimacy-Gabriel-Magdalen-O-C-D/dp/1905574436  Yes it costs a little more but it is more than worth it.
295361
Binding is falling off the book; book is barely in one piece. Was sold as "like new."
3056222
I purchased this to read for my f2f book club am enjoying this historical novel.  However, I am highly disappointed that the binding came apart on the second day of reading this book and approximately 25% of the pages came out in 3 pieces.  I purchased this hardcover book in used condition, but it seems that this binding was damaged and had been glued together. My rating is based on the condition of this book.  I would have preferred to have known that this was a damaged item.
2810531
I recently purchased Home Baking by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid for a second time.  I love this book.  Unfortunately, the binding is especially fragile.  I bought the book a number of years ago and  the binding almost immediately ripped.  I am so disappointed that this is a real problem with the binding of the book and not simply my handling of it, but far worse than a poor binding, I am missing pages and I have repeat pages.  Beginning with page 237, everything is fine through page 284.  After pages 284 the book repeats pages 237 (and all the content from these pages) through pages 252 before skipping ahead to page 301 and continuing on.  What happened?
5 stars for content
2 stars for binding
1 star for mispagination