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Originally Posted by hardcastle
I didn't assume, you belittled the OP for not giving up the information, as if he had any obligation to do so.
This was not a logical jump. Write a better post next time.
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He has no obligation to do so -- just as he has no obligation to report errors.
Considering he went out of his way to report errors, he could do the courtesy of attaching his list of errors. Otherwise, I am perfecty understanding why he was dismissed as a crank.
He doesn't need to find all errors, or even most of them. Neither I nor the publishers expect him to do any proofing whatsoever. But if you buy a consumer product and it is flawed, then a meaningful complaint would include details or examples.
In this as in many other ways, I really don't understand why some people think books are special snowflakes deserving of extra-special treatment.
If the OP had provided the publisher with a subset of his list, and told them "I stopped keeping track of them because it's not my job you lazy tush" then I'd agree that the publisher has a responsibility to fix a product that has been demonstrated to be flawed. And they really do need to check the whole thing properly, too.
Until then, he is a crank.