[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Flub

One reader produced text copies of both the old and new versions (undoubtedly having to crack DRM illegally to do so) and ran them through the diff comparison tool to find out what had been changed, and it turned out that the changes were not major: a few missing words here and there had been corrected, the spelling of the cover artist’s name had been fixed—and in one case, a new typo was introduced!

Thanks for posting this. That's kinda what I was thinking. The higher the price tag.. the less tolerance there seems to be for typos. I'm glad someone took the time to check.

But the one guy that was ranting about random dashes appearing all over the place (in the Amazon comments) was just nuts... I guarantee those dashes were consciously put there by Stephenson:

"eight- and ten-year-old children"

they then went on to create and trademark some bee- and hive-related logo art.

So the airport luggage scanner epiphany was simultaneously dis- and encouraging. Dis- because some occupational psychologists had already beaten him to it and come up with a fix, but en- because people with Ph.D.s had vouched for the basic idea.

See what he's doing there? Those aren't errors... that's called a style/preference. Maybe you don't like it, but it's certainly intentional.