My issue is with the publisher notes
920154
I like Hans Ree but I have not carefully read this book.

My issue is with the publisher notes. It notes that Hans Ree uses the ICC account "A6648". Although I have no doubt Ree might have used the account from time to time, I have a hard time believe that account is him.

For one thing, A6648 is an okay but not very good player. The account does have a lot of games played on the account but it is hard to believe that Ree played all that many games with it. For one thing, the peak rating on that thing is 2211 for bullet, 2186 for blitz and 2093 for standard.

Ree is a grandmaster who beat some really strong players in tournament settings. At the very least I expect Ree to have peak ratings in ICC of @least 2400 and regular ratings of over 2000. Not the current class C and B in blitz and standard. Even I beat that account.

Ree could easily have a free account. A6648 is a paid account.

As I look at the account, it seems to be very unlikely that Ree uses it very much.
3622093
First of all, I love this book.  It's well organized, an entertaining treatment of complex concepts, and a great way to get up to speed on how switches work within the context of recent history and the various standards.

But I've found what seems to me like an excessive number of typos in this new book.  Mine is labeled as a Second Edition on the copyright page, but the little countdown numbers (which I think show the printing) go all the way from 10 down to 1 (so maybe it's a first printing).

They give an email to send errata to (and I've sent several - a quick check on outlook shows 7) and nobody has ever responded, so I'm not sure if they are really interested in fixing the problems or not.

In some cases, there were diagrams that were correct in the original book (at least the "books 24/7" version we have available online here), but are incorrect in the new book.  (For example fig 9-8 on p. 376 has the Aggregator recieve queue (on the right) labeled as an Aggregator Transmit queue.  Similar errors on page 372 and 373 in the Link Aggregation stuff.  It looks like when they went to update to the new book, they failed to get the latest graphics files from the old book.  There are also several internal references that don't match.

There are also section number references that are wrong (Page 36 has a reference to section 1.1.7.3 that should be 1.1.9.3, for example)

As far as I can tell, none of the typos are *real* serious, but I found the diagram errors (which went wrong from the original book) particularly troubling, as well as the lack of response from their email support address.

Apparently this review triggered a sideband contact to the author, who emailed me about the errors.  Email was apparently piled up on the errata email address.  They are working to make the corrections.
575164
Pages, Publisher Promotions Missing. I purchased it "NEW." I couldn't return at hand because I needed it for classes but I will place seller on My "Watch List."
547149
What should I do. Pages 17-31 are at the beginning of the book????!!! I've never seen this before. I'd like the corrected book.
4798781
There are issues with the printing of this reprint.

The reprint of the plate following p. 121, PLATE III, is impossible to make
out--two shades of black with one shade of gray.  There is a related plate
opposite Page 1, that one can make out, but suffers from repeated
dithering that goes with successive generations of .JPEG copying and
 editing.
The frontispiece is a photograph of a man in a white shirt and black
vest sitting, holding the ribs of a violin on his lap. It suffers from the
same gray scale an .JPEG dithering problems as the previously mentioned
plate.
  So I have just described the three photographic plate copies in
the reprint. The remaining illustrations, of which there are a large number, are
line drawings with lined shading, and they do not suffer from this problem.
Those are legible enough, sufficient for understanding.

The last page is all blank except for a bar code and the text

  Made in the USA
  Middletown, DE
  23 April 2016

But there is no other identifying information that says who
the re-printer is.  There is no identifying page in the front one typically sees
with Lib. of Congress identification or ISBN.  On the back cover is a bar code with an
ISBN printed within the bar code frame.  That's it.  I don't know who to write
to to tell them that it is simply straightforward to use a different process to get the
copying of those photographic plates right, clear, and understandable.
3946896
I received this book several weeks ago and when we began reading it I discovered that it was incorrectly bound by the publisher.  Once you reach page 101, there is a huge section that is incorrect- the next page is page 54 again!  the pages then run 54-86 and jump to page 135.  I have wasted my money on this book and had to go and purchase another one at a local bookstore today.  Since it is past the return date, I am stuck.  I would like someone to contact me about how this can be rectified.  Thank you
350468
I don't know about other customers, but my copy ordered from Amazon contains a publishing error.

Issue #40 (the continuation of issue #39 in which Spidy and the Green Goblin are supposed to be unmasked) stops after the first page, then skips to page 17 of issue #39.  Upon reaching the the first page of issue #40 again, it skips to page 8 of issue #42.  Issues #40 and #41 do not appear in this book.

If you're buying this to have on your shelf, that's fine, but if you're buying it to read, the climax is missing and this did not make for a very easy bedtime as I was reading it to my 7 year old son.

I would love to know if other customers had the same problem and how I can get a copy of issues #40-42.

--Beth

UPDATE: I went to a physical bookstore and was able to get a copy of this book which did not have the publishing error.  Changed review to 3 stars because it's a good book for the target market, but I'm leaving the review: online buyer beware!  Some copies of this book have publishing errors which remove the climax from the book.
3796434
I would love to buy this book in the Kindle version, but there seems to be some tech problem with that version.  There is a note that the Kindle Version is "under review" and that the publisher is working to fix the problem, but the note has been up for almost a year now, and nothing happens.  I got in touch with the publisher and the author, and at first they got back to me and promised to look into it, but nothing happened.  I tried again a couple of months later and they didn't respond.  Amazon:  If there is no movement on this issue, you should stop listing the product.
761515
I cannot legitimately review this purchase as of yet since the address label on my most recent copy of the magazine still indicates that my subscription has not been extended.  Perhaps it will be reflected on the next issue I receive.....I hope.
2092735
The binding had a infraction in it. It seems like that would be a key note to make in the discription. I expected pages, put once the binding is comprised everything else could come apart easily.
1399127
There are pages out of order and I was sent a defective copy twice.
3682474
Verify the "condition" notes for each seller.  You may receive a poorly 3D printed die.  This is not displayed clearly on the mobile version.
2145537
As indicated in the title of my review I like to point out a major technical issue of this eBook. That is a Unicode font problem.
In most of the quotes - which I assume that the author and/or editor(s) copy-and-paste from an electronic sources that used "non-standard" Unicode font for Vietnamese - as a Vietnamese reader I encounter these problems:

- On my Kindle 3 all those problematic quotes appear almost without Vietnamese accents [('), (`), (?), (~), (.)]. You do see () and (). Changing to another Unicode font in Kindle font setting does not solve this problem.

- Those problematic quotes viewed on Kindle for Windows 7 (in a Linux machine) show Vietnamese accents at incorrect positions.

Those problematic quotes on Kindle for Windows 7 in a Windows 7 machine show no issue.

Unfortunately, images illustrating this problem cannot be included in this review.

I believe this is a real problem that needs to be mitigated [by the author and Amazon]; after that, I hope, customers will be able to download the Unicode-correct version.

I found a way to illustrate the font issues. Please try to have a look at these images.
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Updated: my latest test with iPad2 shows no problem that exists as reported above.
809752
I like the book because it addresses the flaws in the 3.5 edition content from Wizards of the Coast. The book does a good job describing the mechanics of the 3.5 system.

My book has printing errors starting on page 95. On pages 95-188 (half the book), all the text runs off the side of the page. So, go find a PDF instead of the print copy. Bad Axe Games never replied back to email. I was hoping that they would help - I would have even paid for a corrected copy because it is a five star book.
2856200
This is actually a message to the person who purchased this book new on 7/27. This book should have been pulled because I am going to correct a number of errors we did not notice the first two times going through. Please review it as you see fit, but please send me your email address so that when the project is completed, I can send you the corrected edition free of charge (of course) I am sorry for the inconvenience.
4825969
What's with all the typos?  Or did it just get messed up in some kindle upload transfer?  Tons of missing periods and spaces.
1843524
A NOTE TO ALL READERS

As the author of this book, I feel a strong sense of responsibility for everything in it. Naturally, typos and other errors are an inevitable occurrence despite all attempts to achieve perfection. Writers have to overlook the occasional misspelled word or transposed letters and dismiss them as trivial. However, I discovered a number of errors in this book which should be brought to the attention of the reader and corrected. Obviously it is too late to fix any errors in this volume and all of the information in it is there to stay forever, whether it is accurate or not. So, in an effort to affect some degree of damage control, I have included this list of errata to be kept with this book in an attempt to set the record straight for all present and future readers.

* The book was incorrectly titled: "U.S. Naval Aviation Flying Clothing and Gear" by Schiffer. This was a temporary file name given to the text by someone at Schiffer. I reminded my editor to correct the title at all three stages of the editing process but they either forgot or refused to fix the problem. The title should be: "U.S. Naval Aviation Clothing and Equipment". The incorrect title is particularly unfortunate since "aviation" and "flying" are somewhat redundant.

* The U.S. Navy Mark I life vest is incorrectly referred to as "Mark II" throughout the book. This error was due to the "fuzzy logic" used by a computerized grammar correcting program. It appears that references to "Mark I" as in the "Mark I life vest" and "Mark I Willson goggles" was interpreted as a conflict with similar references using roman numerals as in "Mark II Willson goggles" and "World War II". Evidently the grammar correcting program continuously prompted the user to "correct" one or the other and at some point "Mark I" was changed to "Mark II" for all Mark I life vest references in the text.

* The back figure in the facing page photo has the top of his head cut off. The photo was cropped too short by the layout people at Schiffer. There is no excuse for this and it amounts to nothing less than sloppy editing.

* In the last paragraph of the introduction, the word "imposable" should be "impossible".

* Left and right are incorrectly transposed in the caption for the photo at the bottom right on page 126.

* The word "them" should be "the" in the caption at the bottom of page 219.

* On pages 248 and 250, Admiral John S. McCain is incorrectly described as Admiral Marc Mitscher. Both photos were incorrectly captioned at the National Archives. This error is somewhat understandable since both men were admirals, both were aviators, both were very close in age and both bore a resemblance to each other.

I sincerely offer my most humble apologies to all readers for these errors and I hope to include this list with all future sales of this volume. I have been graciously reassured by everyone who currently owns a copy that the aforementioned errors do not diminish the value or scope of work of the book. I encourage all owners of this book to copy and paste these corrections to a printable format and keep them with their copy for future reference.

Jeff Warner