Dear Amazon, I would like to congratulate you for successfully amusing me.
Now there's a thing I've not seen before.
Last month for "Happy Birthday to Me" I splurged on ordering 2 boxed sets of acrylic model paint of premixed skin tones for various ethnicities, and on ordering 2 recently published, 2022 and 2023, spaceflight books I'd been wanting.
Books are by a fellow who was a NASA flight controller during the moon landing era, and also tested space suits, and also was crew in an atmospheric research aircraft.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07B4G7WXF/about
They are offered by Amazon as print on demand.
I'd rather have books with their color images printed on glossy clay-coated paper, but hey, I'm, poor, these are affordable, and most importantly, it is quite likely that 'print on demand' is The Thing which makes them even available at all.
But ...
Of all the books I've gotten through the decades, some dating back to 1910 ...
That one is the first I've ever seen having its title misspelled anywhere on its cover!
Future is spelled correctly everywhere else I can remember seeing it in the book.
When coming across misspelled words in my own writing it is sometimes fun to play in Google and see if that misspelling might be an actual word. Have found some which are. Can't remember a one of them right now, but some misspellings have turned out to be actual words.
As has "Furute" there on the spine ...
https://www.nihongomaster.com/japanese/dictionary/word/25234/furute-古手-ふるて
So, tell me, what's the probability of Amazon's print on demand computer having had a moment of brain fog?
Monday, must have been printed on a Monday.
Now there's a thing I've not seen before.
Last month for "Happy Birthday to Me" I splurged on ordering 2 boxed sets of acrylic model paint of premixed skin tones for various ethnicities, and on ordering 2 recently published, 2022 and 2023, spaceflight books I'd been wanting.
Books are by a fellow who was a NASA flight controller during the moon landing era, and also tested space suits, and also was crew in an atmospheric research aircraft.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07B4G7WXF/about
They are offered by Amazon as print on demand.
I'd rather have books with their color images printed on glossy clay-coated paper, but hey, I'm, poor, these are affordable, and most importantly, it is quite likely that 'print on demand' is The Thing which makes them even available at all.
But ...
Of all the books I've gotten through the decades, some dating back to 1910 ...
That one is the first I've ever seen having its title misspelled anywhere on its cover!
Future is spelled correctly everywhere else I can remember seeing it in the book.
When coming across misspelled words in my own writing it is sometimes fun to play in Google and see if that misspelling might be an actual word. Have found some which are. Can't remember a one of them right now, but some misspellings have turned out to be actual words.
As has "Furute" there on the spine ...
https://www.nihongomaster.com/japanese/dictionary/word/25234/furute-古手-ふるて
So, tell me, what's the probability of Amazon's print on demand computer having had a moment of brain fog?
Monday, must have been printed on a Monday.