I think it’s okay and even necessary to judge a book by the cover and unfortunately the cover and typesetting and photos in this new book are pretty disappointing.
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I think it’s okay and even necessary to judge a book by the cover and unfortunately the cover and typesetting and photos in this new book are pretty disappointing.
@mwichary oooh… oh no. no no no no.
That's deeply unfortunate. That's not a preprint or early proof??
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@mwichary oooh… oh no. no no no no.
That's deeply unfortunate. That's not a preprint or early proof??
@octothorpe A regular order as far as I know.
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@mwichary Ugh...all that wasted space.
@mwichary Ooh! I wanna be clearer...I'm not dissing the subject (I love retro Apple tech!); there is LITERAL gobs of wasted space there.
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I think it’s okay and even necessary to judge a book by the cover and unfortunately the cover and typesetting and photos in this new book are pretty disappointing.
@mwichary there’s that apple icon menu again!
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@octothorpe A regular order as far as I know.
@mwichary That's… kinda embarrassing, actually. Eeep.
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@mwichary there’s that apple icon menu again!
@Luke Randomly that’s the first spread that the book opened itself on!
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I think it’s okay and even necessary to judge a book by the cover and unfortunately the cover and typesetting and photos in this new book are pretty disappointing.
It’s not just “this book is not fun to look at,” but even the line measure feels too high (or, margins too thin for this form factor), so it will also not be pleasant to read for that reason.
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I think it’s okay and even necessary to judge a book by the cover and unfortunately the cover and typesetting and photos in this new book are pretty disappointing.
@mwichary I'm not sure how I would have set that cover, but probably Apple Garamond would have been involved? Myriad I guess if you wanted to focus on the newer stuff, but this isn't either.
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I think it’s okay and even necessary to judge a book by the cover and unfortunately the cover and typesetting and photos in this new book are pretty disappointing.
@mwichary judging by the everything, this really looks like a print-to-order book.
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It’s not just “this book is not fun to look at,” but even the line measure feels too high (or, margins too thin for this form factor), so it will also not be pleasant to read for that reason.
@mwichary oh no…
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@mwichary judging by the everything, this really looks like a print-to-order book.
@alda Yes, I think it definitely has that feeling at least.
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It’s not just “this book is not fun to look at,” but even the line measure feels too high (or, margins too thin for this form factor), so it will also not be pleasant to read for that reason.
@mwichary my gosh
Fwiw I feel like Pogue is inclined to journalistic capture, but
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It’s not just “this book is not fun to look at,” but even the line measure feels too high (or, margins too thin for this form factor), so it will also not be pleasant to read for that reason.
@mwichary I'm getting stressed out just looking at a photo of that inner margin
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@mwichary I'm getting stressed out just looking at a photo of that inner margin
@SnoopJ Overall it feels like it’s been optimized for cost savings over everything else.
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@SnoopJ Overall it feels like it’s been optimized for cost savings over everything else.
@mwichary biting back snark about how appropriate that might be to the subject matter in a long-term outlook
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It’s not just “this book is not fun to look at,” but even the line measure feels too high (or, margins too thin for this form factor), so it will also not be pleasant to read for that reason.
@mwichary GAH! Why do people not understand that long line lengths are difficult to read and unenjoyable?!!!!
