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Why don't technical books have a issues page? (lemmy.world)
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What's is assumed as correct might not be tomorrow.

Many technical books suffer from that, being it small technicalities or huge issues.

Some books have new editions to solve that, however many don't and even then it would be useful to know inaccuracies present on each edition.

A simple issues page referenced in the beginning of the book would be golden, why inst it a thing yet?

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[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Like this?

https://www.oreilly.com/catalog/errata.csp?isbn=9781491949467

[-] ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Oh that's is so cool !!! I have read a few O'Reilly books how did I never noticed this.

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