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Originally Posted by Jaws
Jumping to that ASIN showed a possible source of the problem: It's a UK-origin book. Which means that in the printed edition, the US page sizes (and often ledding) are different — and due to the flightless bird's process, that's going to present problems with doing a conversion-from-a-conversion. My suspicion, which I can't prove but is consistent with another publisher's problems, is that their internal stylesheets accessed from their typesetting programs have hardcoded metric measurements that get converted to hardcoded "English" measurements for US editions (and ebooks "fulfilled to the US"), even though not visible, and then things go haywire at random deep in the decimal places...
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It’s a British book. I’m in the UK. I bought the book from Amazon UK. I don’t understand why anything involving US measurements would be involved? I collect the Penguin Classics series and over the years I’ve bought well over a hundred books in the range. I’ve never had any issue with one prior to this.