So, is this kind of mis-printing considered as OK, and no need of replacement, for most of you??
No, and ICE doesn't think that it is OK either, otherwise you would have never been told that you would be sent a replacement.
Your posts come across as if you were complaining that you were told that you would not be sent a replacement, when the only issue is that you are unhappy with the priority that ICE has placed on getting you the replacement book that ICE said you could have.
As for priority, I know that Bruce likes to make lists of everything that he has to get done. Your book still being fully usable likely does make it a lower priority than an unreadable book would be. And I know that sending out books is not the only thing on his list of things to get accomplished.
Maybe I'm an unlucky customer who got a rare misprinted copy and left aside, or I'm just too nitpicky?
Rare misprinted copy - yes.
Left aside - no, you would not be intentionally left aside.
Fell through a crack - This is much more likely - after all, the folks who work at ICE are only human, and do occassionally make mistakes. :o
Too nitpicky - maybe, maybe not. ;D Personally, I would say not, but then again ICE did agree to send you a replacement book. The only real issue is ICE not making the replacement as high a priority as you would prefer.
The thing to try to remember is that Bruce is one person trying to do the job of 3 or 4 people (which tends to mean that nothing gets done very quickly :)). To be able to do this job, he has to prioritize things, and sometimes things do fall through the cracks - as unfortunate as that is.
Add to this, his recent clash with swine flu, and the fact that he is still recuperating from it, and that means that some things have slowed down even more (unfortunately, shipping is one of them).
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Somehow, the image fetching function is disabled for this. I don't know why.
Sigh.... OK, I stop posting hereafter. Thanks a lot.
Your image links in your earlier posts are showing up as the following (wrapped in the image tags):
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What this is essentially saying is that the images are on your hard drive. And the forums cannot display them because there is no URL that can be used to reach them.
Why the image in the quote wasn't showing up in the thread when I first read it, I don' know, but nobody was intentionally trying to stop you from attaching images to your posts.