Editing causes major problems
584217
This book is a collection of chapters written by industry experts. It is supurb information that is tragically sabotaged by the editors and publisher. There are whole areas of chapters missing. For example, in chapter 7 Dr. Wayne Taylor's conclusion on process validation is missing. Instead on page 207 the book jumps to methods of teaching literacy. The book returns to the correct material on page 223, part way through the last chapter on validation.

If you are a medical device validation professional, save yourself some heart burn and look elsewhere for guidance information.
1588173
This book was difficult to read due to poor editing. There are numerous errors which are quite distracting.  I am sorry to leave such a poor review, as I can only imagine the long hours the author spent writing this book. I usually overlook small errors and I certainly understand how some mistakes can slip through the publication process, but in this case, I had to put the book aside.
2387826
The editing in the kindle edition is so bad it is distracting. Misspelled words, blanks in the middle of words, random hyphenation for no reason.

I love the Stride novels but the errors are ruining it for me.
324511
I bought this book at the new Visitor's Center in Lead while visiting relatives in the Black Hills last summer. I will be going back to the Black Hills this summer and decided to read this book in anticipation of that trip. I am 5 pages into the book and have already encountered numerous editing errors. I probably should have finished the entire book before writing a review but I can't imagine struggling through another 400 pages of this. I find it hard to believe that Mr. Waterland has published 2 other books prior to this one and doesn't have a better editing team. Based on his credentials given on the inside cover, I'm assuming there is good information to be found in this book for those who can struggle through the editing errors. I will probably continue to read the book to glean these facts but am terribly disappointed.
1136730
I gave this 4 stars not because of storyline, which I enjoyed, but because there were so many editing errors such as extra words in a sentence which made me have to re-read the sentence to get meaning. There was even a missing sentence/quote (I had already returned it back to kindle unlimited so I cant remember exactly where but it looks like ,). I hope someone goes back and re-edits this book because these things drive me nuts
885410
I bought this book because of all the positive reviews posted here. After reading past through half of the book (4 out of 5 chapters), I soon discovered some serious editorial and authoring inconsistencies and errors.
1. Typos plague the whole book from main text to Q&A - particularly true in the answer sections of the book where you need right answers the most.
2. Inconsistencies between text and Q&A. For example, the main text of Chapter 3 mentions nothing about BGP. All of the sudden, the Q&A has about 15 questions. (That's 15%!).
3. Serious editorial errors. In page 221, Table 3-7, there is a note for author that reads "Author: please supply table title". And the title says "Need Chapter Title"
These are just some of the problems I have been running so far. I will continue to read the book to the end though. The CD that comes with the book seems to contain the same questions as the Q&A sections of the book. The software engine is not as good as the one from Cisco Press in usefulness.
I learned some new things from the book (even though I am already a CCNP), but this book has a lot room for improvement. I really feel the author and the publisher are seriously irresponsible in trying hard to rush the product to market.
3720746
This software renders very quickly, but the editing process is horrible. Beyond terrible. I am running this on a brand new PC with an SSD system/software drive on an m. 2 slot, 32 gigs of ram, a new skylake i5, and the editor hangs nonstop whenever I do anything with short (less than 5 minute) clips at 720, 30 fps. It takes a long time to create "shadow" files that are lower-res files meant to speed up the editing. In practice, they don't speed up the editing at all.

If you don't believe me, do a web search on powerdirector forums and magic + pd, which is software conversion and process created by some users in order to address the horrible lag issues that powerdirector has because it doesn't deal with clips properly on its own.

There are also unaddressed bugs that customer support refuses to acknowledge. For instance, I found out that when I ran two clips directly together (two clips that were part of a longer, contiguous stream), and renedered them as WMV files at the native 30 fps, powerdirector would cut out the sound between the two for a second. Rendering the same clips in another format didn't have this issue. Sure, I can render MP4s instead, but the point is, bugs like this shouldn't exist, and when they're pointed out, customer service shouldn't pretend that its my fault their program isn't working correctly.

Customer support is no help at all, they ask you to jump through hoops, sending them diagnostic logs, and in the end, they typically blame your machine. One of them told me my machine was a "low performance" PC. Uh huh. So everyone needs better than 32 gigs of ram, a high-end SSD, a new motherboard with an m2 slot for that SSD, and a new CPU, just to work with a handful of 720p video clips from a consumer camera?

Don't trust a free trial, either, because the software *sometimes* seems acceptable (though still laggy), but it can turn into a spinning cursor-nightmare any time. I'm talking about seeing the cursor spin for 30 seconds upon simply trying to move a clip from the library to the timeline, or when dragging the end of a clip a couple seconds in order to trim it.
3637290
Both stories are a great read, but the terrible editing let's it down every few pages or so.  It's quite distracting. Please fix!
616460
While I wouldn't go so far as one star, this book does seriously need some editing. Clunky, confusing, and outright incorrect grammar and punctuation riddle the book from start to finish. For instance, sentences in the book just like this one predominately do not include a comma after "for instance." So backwards was grammar that I would occasionally have to reread sentences constructed like this one. Otherwise, I think the content gives a decent overview of New Mexico history and is fine as an introductory book, if you can stand the errors.
1652907
This book is recommended to many writers interested in increasing their writing output.

The methods and personal stories are sufficiently and clearly explained. The writer is also careful to make the point that there are multiple ways and that her way might not work for everyone.

Unfortunately, this book is poorly edited. It was extremely jarring to read through the various typos, double words, and occasional misspellings.

I would think on an ebook selling as well as this one the author could do a read over after all these years, go in and fix the text (which is simple and fast to accomplish) but the author  chooses not to. Too bad.
4362693
Proofread! Please! Words jammed together make reading difficult. I do not recommend this until it is edited thoroughly. Don't ruin digital publishing.
1692295
So 75% into the book and I was impressed..."good editing, 3 errors, not bad!"
*load sound effects for tires skidding* as my kindle is showing 80% read. Yeah, apparently the editor quit.

The sentences stopped making sense, words were not spelled correctly or the author was now using a different language, and the story was making drastic shifts. Maybe the editor just went mad.

Overall, my review is a simple warning to people like me, the book has a bad ending, unless it was left to make a sequel... authors seemed to forget to notify us sometimes *insert any image of a human being shaking their head, and then putting their face in their hands, and making a slow dramatic walk away*

Okay I am back, Editing is key, and I am told it was fixed. I will further review the new addition once I read it.
2884865
I'm on Chapter 4 and I really wish that I could give this book a higher rating, but because of the horrible editing, I cannot. The storyline is good so far. My problem is that it is very difficult to figure out who is saying what!! I've never seen a book written to where 2 people's dialogue is mixed together in one paragraph. And, it's not even always noted at the end of a comment in that weird paragraph who said what. You truly have to be able to decipher the conversation yourself and divide up what's being said and by who. Extremely annoying, but I'm going to try to finish the book since I paid for it and love this series. If the author reads this though, PLEASE remove this book and have an editor go back through it.
1374339
I really wanted to like this book and it was interesting for about 1/3 of the way through.  Then editing problems got in the way.  Repeats, changing page fonts, odd look to it.  I tried skimming past that because I wanted to know what happened next but decided to just delete the whole thing on my kindle.  Maybe if I come across a hardback copy I will be able to finish it because I would like to know what happened.  I am disappointed because I wasted so much time.
3381148
The editing and proofreading processes in publishing this book seem to have been bypassed altogether.  This book is ripe with errors and typos that will confuse the unfortunate CSS neophyte.  It appears to be another example of a web-development book that was rushed to press well before it was ready.  I plan on returning the book for a refund.
2994133
Have the book editted before going to publication!!

The grammatical mistakes in this book were minor - but consistent:
  Use of a question mark where it was a statement.
  Use of a period where it was a question.
  Apostrophes in the wrong place or missing entirely (possessives).
  Phrases are not sentences.
  Sentences should end and new thoughts should begin new sentences.

I have some minor quibbles with the story... Jenny is from Wyoming, and makes fun of some "Brit-speak", but also speaks as a Brit herself at times. Some of the work interactions were "odd".  I think much of these issues could have been pointed out by and resolved with an EDITOR!!

I should give this a lower rating because of the editting issues, and if an editor had tightened up the story and cleaned up some of the "awkwardness", it would have been perfect. As it stands in this form, a recommended 3.5.  If you can roll with the above issues, you'll probably like it, too.

I read this on my Kindle (picked it up as a freebie) and would love to buy a hard copy for the home library so the kids can read it, but with the grammatical issues, I can't offer it as an example of a well written book, and for that I am sorry...  Please advise if the book is editted at some point so I can purchase a hard copy for home.  Thanks.
3197717
Terrible editing that I immediately noticed and I am a horrible writer. For example, on question 2 option d is both a and d. Seriously? The errors continue with a case study were, in the same sentence, they refer to the patient as a him twice and a her once. After noticing others errors I didn't bother to finish the book. With such obvious errors in the print in really makes me wonder if the information is actually correct.