"Mitty" wrote in message =
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I got mine last week. I'm very disappointed. Although there is a lot=20
of valuable material in it and the graphics are very, very nice, it is =

possibly the worst organized book I have ever seen. Both in the =
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and in the layout & typography. For example, three levels of =
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headings are all left-justified in Helvetica bold caps, differentiated =

only by being in what appears one point differences type sizes, like =
12,=20
11, and 10. This makes the structure very hard to follow.
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It is represented as "a technical reference for professional pilots."=20
But the index is very weak, not really suitable for a reference, and =
the=20
technical material ranges widely from valuable to irrelevant (ARINC =
424=20
computer record layouts) to sophomoric (how to calculate descents).
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I guess the reason I am so unhappy is that there is a fair amount of=20
good material here but it is like picking through a dumpster to find =
it.=20
If the material was uniformly weak, I would just toss the book out =
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write the cost off to experience, but that is not the case.
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I am off base here? Anybody else looked at it?

Yes, and I'll raise you, with gripes about mis-spellings and dyslexic =
acronym errors.
It made me want to red-pencil errors, and mark it "Correct and Return".
---JRC---