Thanks again folks. This is what I just sent over to Sandrine. The errors listed by
@Yatima that are not on here (which was just a few of the early ones) are already corrected in the April 19th update (which I believe also corrected the MacOS issue).
Per
@ThornPlutonius, I think it's a real advantage in the modern day that publishers can produce a PDF and then collect errors before the book goes to press. A number of publishers now use this methodology. This is my first book where that's been the case, since my last major release was a decade ago.
It's not that books are being proof-read less. (Here, I had 3-10 beta readers on every chapter, and I did 3-4 editorial passes on every chapter besides that, then Matthew edited it and Charlotte proofread it, then we continued to check it and recheck it on layouts until the official PDF was produced.) Errors slip through, it's just the nature of the beast. Sometimes they're things I wrote two years ago, sometimes a correction I made at the last minute, sometimes an edit gone wrong, sometimes a layout tweak. But thanks to being able to release a PDF and then wait a bit for the print run, and thanks to kind readers being willing to report errors, we end up with final books and PDFs that are frankly cleaner than they would have been a decade ago. (So thanks once more!)
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it moved forward the timeline,
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it moved the timeline forward,
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Imperium Stable
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(July 1994), by which
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(July 1994). By this
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Desert Shield Fact Book
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Gulf War Fact Book
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Desert Shield Fact Book
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Gulf War Fact Book
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BITS author Martin J. Dougherty
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BITS authors Martin J. Dougherty and Timothy Collinson
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ten 2005
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commercial book
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Similarly, BITS’ Andy Lilly produced a trilogy of universal GM’s books,
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such rules for androids
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