From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
Subject: Re: New edition of John Barnes' classic book
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 02:20:36 -0500
Date: 2014-07-03T02:20:36-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lp308d$jrp$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lp1v6v$ibj$1@loke.gir.dk
On 7/2/2014 4:56 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> Seriously, it is VERY heavy - I don't recall many books that heavy. (I just
> picked it up again and it still feels like a pair of bricks -- I hope the
> bookshelf is strong enough to hold it. :-) Next time I read it, it will have
> to be at a desk.
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.
--Nasser
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-19 21:19 New edition of John Barnes' classic book Dirk Craeynest
2014-06-20 5:49 ` Pascal Obry
2014-06-20 22:30 ` Wesley Pan
2014-06-21 9:37 ` Per Sandberg
2014-06-25 10:40 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-07-02 21:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-03 7:13 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-03 7:20 ` Nasser M. Abbasi [this message]
2014-07-03 15:34 ` kug1977
2014-07-03 16:01 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-03 19:44 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-03 23:06 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-07-13 12:35 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-07-13 15:35 ` Anh Vo
2014-09-28 6:46 ` sjaniska
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