[DiapDealer]

You still haven't said whether it was originally from Amazon or one of the other epub retailers.

Like I said ... I have no problems believing there are formatting errors from the publisher. I just see no point in looking at a calibre conversion to find them, or to point them out. calibre gets source material it's never seen before thrown at it every day. So it's not all that odd to see something unexpected manifest--or to see different formatting introduced when converting.

Clearly the original had a few issues to begin with in this case. But it just seemed odd to me to be using a calibre conversion for checking/condemning a publisher's work; that's all.

I purchased and read Best Served Cold back when a well-formatted retail mobi was the exeception rather than the norm; so I don't remember if the formatting tripped me up or not. I do know that I've seen a steady improvement over the years in retail ebook formatting since then, though. At least in the books I buy. Still a clinker every now and then though. Just rarely nasty enough for me to worry about fixing it.