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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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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[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

You are thinking of errata, and most technical books do have it.

[-] ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

I meant a issues web page like bugzilla or github.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago
[-] ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

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

[-] sxan@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

Technical books have long had errata pages, but often with new issues, known errata are usually fixed. And as mighty as their may be, editors can't list errors that haven't yet been identified. To be in errata, it has to be found too late to fix, but not too late to change.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They often do?

What book(s) are you referring to?

[-] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 1 points 2 months ago

Do you mean a kind of introduction-style insert that addresses things a revision would state?

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