Quality of some of the SL E-books

E-books purchased:

Scripting Recipes for Second Life (ISBN: 1604390042)
Introduction to Linden Scripting Language for Second Life (ISBN: 160439000X)

Date purchased:

12-02-2009

I bought the e-book version of the two titles listed above, and I must say, I am rather disappointed at their quality. Aside from typos, there are gross formatting errors in some of the code examples, as well as in the typography of the text it self and the pages.

Some examples in Introduction to Linden Scripting Language for Second Life:

On page 141, the chapter 9 "goals" are duplicated from chapter 8 on page 131.
On pages 63, 110, 113, 117, and others a sample script is started, but it is split across two pages. If I were to print this e-book, I would have to flip pages to see the entire listing, even though it can fit on one page
Pages 49, 50, 62, 73, 74, and many more are totally blank and would only waste one line of printing on a page, thus making them effectively useless, unless of course the goal is to create stacks of scratch paper.

Some examples in Scripting Recipes for Second Life:

Nearly all of my complaints above apply here as well. Empty pages at the end of chapters, example code not appearing on a single page when it could.
A specific example of the typography being off: on page 261, the text in the last paragraph is spaced so closely together it looks as if its one word. Just to be sure it wasn't my laptop (with a 15" screen) I opened the document on my desktop (with a 29" screen) and saw the same effect.
On page 284, the wording of the text within the listen block is just plain...bad. Typos are common place, but that sentence is just plain garbage.
Pages 100-102 are a perfect example of the code being formatted so poorly that I would have to refer to the example script file to be able to read it.
On page 259, listing 8.8 is referencing a script, yet the file name give ends in .not.

If I had bought either of these books in paperback form, I would be returning them forthright for a refund. A person would not expect to buy a book and find such issues in it, nor would they expect them in an e-book version.

I would like greatly to resolve this issue. Many of the issues I outlined above can most likely be attributed to an automated process, though that does not excuse the lack of quality control being performed before the product was sold. I have found the examples to be useful and the tables of values easier to reference than the online documentation from LL.

Now, rather than complaining, I'll make a suggestion that would (or should I say could) improve the e-books:
Add bookmarks to each of the subsections of the chapters. This would make it infinitely more pleasing to look up example code.

EDIT: I realized after I made my post and went back to reading that there are indeed bookmarks to the sub-sections of the book. My apologies for missing this.

If you would like, I can provide the original ZIP files that I downloaded for review. I appreciate any and all help in resolving this issue and hope to hear from you soon.

Vadtec
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