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Old 01-10-2014, 09:33 PM   #18
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I have a follow up to this book.

Some of the comments on the Kindle version at Amazon are complaining about a "Notes on the Type" section at the end of the print version that is missing from the kindle version (and the epub as well). Normally, the note about the font in a printed book would serve no purpose in an ebook, but apparently the author relates the typeface to one of the book's characters and more or less hid an epilog here. If you play with it a little, you can see this section in Amazon's on-line preview of the print version - I've saved off images of it (it's just over 1 page long) to read after finishing the book.

I was upset at finding these "missing" images in NOS4A2 partly because I had just finished fixing a much worse image problem with a previous purchase. One of my wish list items I picked up last month with the big kobo discount codes active then was Titan Unveiled by Ralph Lorenz & Jacqueline Mitton. This covers some of the NASA Cassini/Huygens mission findings on Saturn's moon, Titan (yes, I enjoy reading reading this stuff some of the time).

When I downloaded it, I found that the text was missing probably 100 images, each replaced with a big blank square enclosing the words "The image placed here in the print version has been intentionally omitted". In this type of book, the images are probably much more important than a novel like NOS4A2 as the text will be discussing geological features and such, without the accompanying images.

If I'd paid full price, I would have just requested a refund. Instead, I borrowed the hard cover at the library and embarked on a long image recovery. I found and downloaded many of them from the NASA Cassini mission web page at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/ and various other sites. The others, I just scanned.
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