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turgid specimen #109

Open purpleposeidon opened 3 years ago

purpleposeidon commented 3 years ago

Hardcover, bought off Amazon. The page on the back of Volume 1 says "Monee, IL 23 June 2021"; Volume 2 has "Monee, IL 15 July 2021"

Pervasive

I'm not gonna note down all the errors that happen multiple times.

The headings, eg "Raising Animals: Fences: Gates: Spring Gate" are a bit weird. But one can get used to them. It adds character.

There are numerous unclosed quotes; look for /[ \t\n]"[^"]+/ or maybe /[ \t\n]"[^"]+$/, or look at all /"/ manually; maybe 1 in 8 are broken. (At least near the beginning of vol1 anyways.) Note that looking for /(.*)/ (or is it /\(.*\)/) is incorrect if it captures page refs as well.

The QR codes have too much padding on the bottom. Eg, the 3rd on p275.

Sometimes you don't end your sentences with a . before the links, and sometimes you do. Usually you don't. You should be consistent.

Sometimes big long QR links are dubiously embedded in the middle of a sentence. It might be better to jam all the URLs and QR codes in a foot-note.

Linnaean names should be italicized and the genus should be capitalized, eg p428 "Leptinotarsa decemlineata", and there are several on p431.

Book titles should be italicized.

Basically every table's header has some issue.

You could use a few more diagrams:

The images could really stand a higher DPI.

Volume I

p_iv "( morlockpublishing.com )" oughtn't have spaces
p_iv "“real”" I think this is the only place in the entire book you use the 2-dollar quotation marks.
p_iv "( vol"
p4   " Cargo Containers" (unaligned left margin)
p5   " Brush" (unaligned left margin)
p67  No price given for piglets (and maybe should be given another look over in general)
p83  The math formatting in "Firewood: Estimating Quality" is an embarrassment. Knuth weeps. (The math formatting is in general rather poor. You use " x " when " × " or "×" would work just as well. "π" for "pi", "-" instead of mile-long "⸻")
p90  '"logger I'
p103 Those bullets should maybe be a table. Actually, pervasive; /<li>.*\t/
p103 /all-in$/
p146 the CAD for the run-in shed comes 10 pages too late
p153 s/8"X8"/8"x8"/
p234 vehicles/tractor/buying-a-tractor/used "perhaps <li> at tractordata.com)"
p237 "wastes fuel <li> the engine is" [maybe you should look for single-element lists]
p237 "load isapplied"
p239 "as its acted" [and you had been doing so well... (Let me tell you, being on the internet and naturally reading "it's" as "it is" makes me miserable.))]
p242 "with a booted,"
p242 "verify all connections +..." (pervasive)
p242 "There are a few typical problems along the way." Such as?
p245 "or . 04%" [it line-wraps]
p246 "campuses, Etcetera:"
p252 '"Tru Fuel 4-cycle If'
p240 Attaching Implements: I am glad to have read this.
p254 accessories missing links for stuff? Actually I suppose this applies to lots of things, enh.
p256 "up / down", "up /down", "up/down" agh
p257 "etc. will"
p261 'wheel" Gooseneck"
p266 Jumper Cables: insufficient info, why do you connect it this way; I've heard there's a risk of a Bad Time if you mess this up, is this true? Procedure says "other end", should say more specifically "other [color] end". If I were referring to this in the field I'd totally glaze over the paragraph mentioning to start the donor's engine. Maybe the steps should be a numbered list instead.
p271 ")(off-road" (due to ref)
p276 "safety fear"
p277 "the rip of the wheel"
p281 That image is suffocating the margin.
p286 "and</p>"
p287 "(b)" as bullet point
p288 "opened - the" should be one of those mile-long em-dashes
p291 s/4'x4'/4x4/
p292 "rod Corner"
p297 '"liability'
p298 "ofpasture"
p304 "shelter ("
p306 "coop(" (ref)
p308 "Once a year or more" do you mean to much more often than once a year, or more than one year?
p322 "1 <li> kg of Premix"
p327 "hole a inches"
p329 "( sausage"
p334 "(?" You tell me!
p334 "- either via bees or wind —" (mismatched dashes)
p335 s/or late/or "late"/
p337 "piled alone the"
p340 "The Gimp" I think you called it GIMP elsewhere, and I believe that to be the proper name.
p340 The Fencing section might mention fencing for sheep silviculture.
p343 "on line" "In line"
p343 "... + ..."
p343 s/Process/Process:/
p343 Some <li>s have periods and others do not.
p343 "*See* [ref] on using a shovel and pick"
p347 s/resources:/Resources:/ (or something else entirely...) (pervasive)
p350 "<li></li>"
p350 "+..."
p351 "be turn inside out"
p351 "- or better yet —" (mismatched dashes). The mixed dash/emdash thing is pervasive and I am going to stop pointing them out. Try :set gdefault.
p352 That's "April 6th", commie. (Can you use lawn thatch as hay?)
p353 "is a cheaper than the maintenance"
p355 "http://Google.com/"
p356 s/1.4 x/1.4x/
p358 despite constant negative obersbbo eeding
p360 "a plug of first, and"
p362 s/",/,"/. Programmer quotes are based, but you nearly always use English ones.
p364 'For reviews' has inconsistent line spacing.
p365 "Asparagus… Zucchini" would be more clearly presented as "<tr><td>Asparagus: 5-10 plants  <td>Beans: 10-15 plants  <td>Beets: 10-25 plants  <td>Bok Choy: 1-3 plants  <tr>"
p373 "cross product" Maybe you meant 'Cartesian product', but I think either is wrong.
p373 "or \n eggs"
p375 "but are left tall litter behind"
p377 "Seed to Seed" should be in quotes or italics.
p379 ". [ref]." ought be "; see Field Crops: Preparing [ref]", or something
p399 "made up off logs"
p399 "remain ."
p402 "N /acre"
p409 "+..." * 2 (pervasive)
p430 hello doggie
p431 "... I've fought on the farm:" basically a doubled paragraph
p436 Making tools to kill invasive plants sounds like a good business.
p438 table not aligned
p439 unnecessary dashes in table
p443 s/\.\.\. but/... But/ (I wouldn't call "Blah, blah. ... but blah." correct, tho you seem consistent about it. ...But it looks wrong at the beginning of a paragraph.)
p444 another broken table heading
p445 "[Pipelining] increases efficiency at each subtask and reduces the chance of making errors" and multiplies the chance of finding out later you did something wrong on each unit, like, for example, cutting your firewood to 30" long when the log splitter you just bought only handles 24". (p85)
p445 A secondary escape route!
p447 "a notice cut"
p448 "of the three from"
p452 s/=~/≈/
p454 "it can several hours"
p454 "a another"
p457 Link to "Seeing Like a State" is a bit of a tangent.
p474 The demonstration on military counting wastes a third of a page. Couldn't it dispense with the line-breaks, or be a figure?
p479 table header "bf" not aligned.
p495 single <li>
p496 "Although note that this.... Note that this..." (duplicate content)
p496 /^reference/
p499 /^... *[a-z]/
p499 "wine must"
p505 "( for"
p506 "<p>( ... ).</p>
p507 naked refs ought have "see [ref]"
p509 and 510 excavator anecdote already given/split up

Volume II

I glanced at an interview and saw usage of "--" instead of "⸻"

p757 "life the can"

Inter-Volume

I got the impression from the marketing that it was a reasonable thing to only buy the first volume. But it doesn't have the index, nor the map. You should consider putting those things on the website. You should consider putting the map before or after the table of contents.

(... Belatedly I realize that "there's this typo on pXXX" isn't very helpful when the pages are 60 lines long.)