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Comment author: alexvermeer 13 March 2015 04:46:10PM 12 points [-]

Just a reminder that mistakes/problems/errors can be sent to errata@intelligence.org and we'll try fix them!

Comment author: quinox 15 March 2015 10:52:47AM 10 points [-]

I can't mail that address, I get a failure message from Google:

We're writing to let you know that the group you tried to contact (errata) may not exist, or you may not have permission to post messages to the group.

I'll post my feedback here:

Hello,

I got the book "Rationality: From AI to Zombies" via intelligence.org/e-junkie for my Kindle (5th gen, not the paperwhite/touch/fire). So far I've read a dozen pages, but since it will take me a while to get to the end of the book I'll give some feedback right away:

  • The book looks great! Some other ebooks I have don't use page-breaks at the end of a chapter, don't have a Table of Content, have inconsistent font types/sizes etc. The PDF version is very pretty as well.

  • The filename "Rationality.mobi" (AI-Zombie) is the same as "rationality.mobi" (HPMOR)

  • A bunch of inter-book links such as "The Twelve Virtues of Rationality"/"Predictably Wrong"/"Fake Beliefs"/"Noticing Confusion" (all from Biases: An introduction) don't work: On my Kindle I have the option to "Follow link", but when I choose it the page refreshes and I'm still at the same spot.

    Inspecting the .mobi source with Calibre e-book reader I see:

    < a href="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" >Noticing Confusion< /a>

    The links from the TOCs and some other chapters do work properly.

  • Due to the lack of quotation marks and the nonuse of italics I didn't realize the part "As a consequence, it might be necessary" was a quote (Biases: An introduction). The extra margin left and right do indicate something special, but with the experience of so many bad ebooks my brain assumed it was just a broken indentation level.

  • The difference between a link going to the web and one going to a location within the book aren't obvious: one is only a slighter darker grey than the other. In Calibri the links are a nice green/blue, but my kindle doesn't have colours.

Cheers,

Comment author: lukeprog 15 March 2015 06:27:14PM 5 points [-]

I can't mail that address, I get a failure message from Google

Oops. Should be fixed now.

Comment author: alexvermeer 16 March 2015 04:11:09PM 3 points [-]

The book looks great!

Thanks!

A bunch of inter-book links such as ...

D'oh. It's all good in the epub, but something broke (for very dumb reasons) converting the mobi. It's fixed now. If you've already bought the book though Amazon or e-junkie, you'll have to re-download the file to get the fixed one (in a few hours, while Amazon approves the new book). Sorry about that.

The difference between a link going to the web and one going to a location within the book aren't obvious: one is only a slighter darker grey than the other. In Calibri the links are a nice green/blue, but my kindle doesn't have colours.

Not much we can do about this. Amazon is very restrictive in how you can modify the styling of links. It works fine for displays with color, but people with e-ink displays are out of luck. :-(

Thanks.

Comment author: adamzerner 15 March 2015 01:58:33PM 0 points [-]

Same.

Comment author: iarwain1 13 March 2015 04:57:33PM *  10 points [-]

we'll try fix them

I think you meant "try to fix them" :)

Comment author: pinyaka 13 March 2015 05:14:42PM 24 points [-]

You should send that to errata@intelligence.org.

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