Good book, bad presentation
923721
I ordered a new book, but when I received it the spine was crinkled up and it was hard to read the title on it because of this.  Also, the front cover was bent.
3422373
Good book but Amazon Kindle version is no good because it was missing the table of contents and is hard to navigate. Good book - badly presented.
817772
EXCELLENT BOOK, and arguments on many current topics are nicely laid out.  I love the book, and this copy was ordered for my son.  HOWEVER, the copy I recently ordered was POORLY printed . . . in fact, so much it is almost useless.  Some of the pages are off where it is hard to read the entire sentence.  The margins are all fouled up.  I need to get another copy, but wasn't sure how to contact Amazon regarding my level of dissatisfaction.
3370816
I have no complaints whatsoever about the content of this book, with the exception that sometimes the pruning advice is a little vague. It's nice to see a genuine evidence-based approach to gardening that cites studies and research, not tradition and habit. A lot of the advice in this book is the same advice i give as a Master Gardener, but some i'd never heard before and am eager to try.

The big problem i did have with this book was the presentation. It's an absolute font salad, with font size and weight varying wildly in what, i assume, was an aesthetic choice designed to appeal to the internet generation by echoing website design and infographics. Some pages are white with black or colored text, some pages are solid red or green with white text, and so on. And the type ranges from huge and bold to so fine and small that it's almost invisible. My vision is roughly 20/20, and at times i had to get my face right up to the page to read a section.

I do highly recommend this book to anyone interested in growing better-tasting better-for-you produce. It covers everything from what cultivars to grow, how to grow them, how to harvest them, and sometimes even recipes for how to eat them. You might want to get a magnifying glass too, though.
4008504
It looks like the paperback and hardcover photos are backwards.  I was disappointed because the softcover is actually really ugly compared to the item picture.  Still a good book though.
2923221
The content and architecture in this book is great, the actual book I got was in worse shape than anticipated (but I knew it was used). The frustrating thing is that it's almost all BLACK AND WHITE photography which defeats the purpose since so much of Barragan's work was an exercise in color. The few color images there are are poor quality and look like they were taken at a time when the buildings were not being well maintained. If you're just getting this for photo reference like me, save a buck and do a google image search, you'll get better results.
4143152
This is a great book, spoiled by very poor reproduction. The illustrations look like thumbnail resolution drawings, blown up to full size, resulting in most of them being rendered almost useless. In my copy, all of the page numbers are cut off, making it a challenge to find things from the index.

In spite of all of this, the information in the book is priceless if you want to understand your KT100..... If only the illustrations were readable.
17275
This book is excellent but......This book looks like it got wet. It also has a terribly bent cover page. I expect a book that says good condition, to look much better than this. This looks like a book that people would pass up for a quarter at a thrift store.
4101495
The book (content) is very good, however the Kindle Edition formatting leaves a lot to be desired. I keep hoping the publisher will clean up the document send an update, but that has yet to happen. It is impossible to select an individual word or even sentence, the best you can do is highlight a whole paragraph. This makes highlighting challenging. -- While not the primary issue, the appearance is not great, there are a significant number of poorly placed sentence returns, even in many cases breaking up words. I have seen the kindle conversion process for a pdf file produce a better, more readable document.
994791
The content is good, exactly as I expected.  But the book is very poorly printed.  The cover looks like it is larger than the original size so it is pretty blurry.  The pages look like they are printed at original scale but because of the larger page size there's a really big margin.  Overall poor quality of the physical book.
1323192
On a cursory glance, The Visual Miscellaneum by David McCandless looks pretty good. The book covers a wide breath of topics and everything is very colourful. However, a more detailed inspection will reveal some serious errors in the visualizations the book contains.

Some of the data items within the information graphics have been intentionally left unlabeled. For example, "Sex Education" on page 62, presents a bar chart and the only entry that is labeled is Studio Art which has no students that are virgins. Having seen this chart before, the bar chart on page 62 emphasizes the original joke. In the introduction, McCandless asks "Can you make jokes in graphs?" Indeed you can, and this is a borderline ok example. However, the joke isn't clear if you haven't seen the original chart.

From here, it gets worse. The "Excuse Us: Reasons for Divorce" graphic on page 64 does not have any labels on any of the items in the graphic. Where is the actual content? Or are the data items intentionally left unlabeled?

Similarly, in the "Salad Dressings: All in proportion" graphic on page 118, why aren't the individual dressings labeled? On the previous page, with "The Poison" and "The Remedy", the drinks are labeled, so therefore I would expect the salad dressings on the following page to labeled as well (especially since the graphic design of these pages are so similar). However, this is not the case.

In general, it seems like there are more than a few labeling issues in the graphics through out the book, and I was left wondering if this omissions were erroneous or intentional? It wasn't always clear.

But missing labels isn't the only problem. The "Not Nice: Food colourings linked to unpleasant health effects" graphic on page 119 contains no mention of health effects in the actual graphic. Is that the point? That there is no unpleasant health effects linked to food colouring? I wasn't sure after looking at the graphic.

These are just a few examples of some of the problems with the visualization found in The Visual Miscellaneum, and unfortunately these errors complete spoil the entire book. I would agree with Christian Rudder's Amazon review that this book is an example of how not to present information, and if you're looking for visualization excellency, consider the work by Edward R. Tufte instead.
4391589
Looks like a pretty great book. Unfortunately I purchased the Kindle version, which is so poorly formatted as to be literally unreadable.

The Kindle version is formatted such that the entire page is rendered within a small area in the center of the screen, and does not reformat to fit the size of the device (see attached picture).

I'll probably purchase the physical version, since I'm still quite interested in reading this book. It's a rather unfortunate first experience, however.
4861386
the book content is good but i am disappointed with the hardcover, it is shoddy looking -- the edges are unfinished like the flap of a cardboard box -- not what you'd expect in a hardcover book, especially for a child.  It looks as if the book cover and back was printed on a cardboard box!  making it look like a very tacky gift for my grandaughter.
3201415
The content is great, but the formatting of this edition is pretty terrible.  The type is tiny and faded, and the pictures are small and grainy.  It makes me think someone put it together who didn't really know what they were doing, and then tried to save money on printing costs.  I would recommend the edition from Greenleaf Press, as the main content is virtually identical and much easier to read.
2926824
For the record, I do like the content of the book, which includes tones of things that we should learn for Architecture or Interior Design. What I do not satisfy is the quality of the book. This is the first time I bought used item, I'm not sure what "good condition" should be look like ,but I was not so happy when I got the book and saw the cover. The previous owner might dropped the book for many times because many parts of the hardcover are wounded and cocked up. Contrarily, the inner pages are in a very good condition. I needed to get this book in a hurry and I would have to wait for a month if I want to get a new book so I didn't return it.
2219704
Nice collection formatting isn't that great. And Irenaeus's against heresies is just a collection of one paragraph per chapter instead of the actual book. Hope it gets fixed someday
2350627
The book itself is good, but there are a bunch of highlights throughout the book, and although it isn't the worst thing in the world, it is troubling, because i'm afraid that I would be blamed for the marks when I just got the book today. I'm not sure if you guys check the books for marks or not, but this one definitely has a lot highlighted and some pages are very difficult to read because words are smeared by the highlight. This is difficult for me because every word on the page is important when relative to definitions and such, and the marks create great difficulty.