From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.58.71 with SMTP id o7mr2752374obq.3.1404403271554; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 09:01:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.78.138 with SMTP id b10mr248789igx.17.1404403271399; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 09:01:11 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.glorb.com!hn18no2591752igb.0!news-out.google.com!bp9ni2743igb.0!nntp.google.com!hn18no2591751igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 09:01:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=KSa2aQoAAACOxnC0usBJYX8NE3x3a1Xq NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 References: <53a55250$0$25880$862e30e2@ngroups.net> <1580045799425385628.134656laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <84bfd49d-609a-4b2b-b368-9cc8180b3377@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: New edition of John Barnes' classic book From: Adam Beneschan Injection-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:01:11 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20696 Date: 2014-07-03T09:01:10-07:00 List-Id: On Thursday, July 3, 2014 12:20:36 AM UTC-7, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > On 7/2/2014 4:56 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote: > The 2005 version was 848 pages weight 1.4 kg. The 2012 version > is 967 pages, weight: 2.02kg. The difference in number of pages > is not linear with the difference in weight. They must have used > heavier paper in the 2012 version. Either that, or Barnes added a lot weightier material .... :) :) -- Adam