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About $340 for the full set of eBooks. Also: "Please do not tell me about errors that you find in an eBook, whether it's PDF or not, unless the same errors are

About $340 for the full set of eBooks. Also: "Please do not tell me about errors that you find in an eBook, whether it's PDF or not, unless the same errors are present in a printed copy; such mistakes should be reported directly to the publisher." Glad he thought to mention this, but I suspect his inbox will still be inundated.

fmajid 3mo ago
He doesn't have an inbox: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
- WillAdams 3mo ago
  E-mails which are sent in about the various books used to be printed out and responded to --- I got a $2.88 physical reward check for finding an error and a point of improvement in _Digital Typography_. Not sure how they are handled now. Trying to find an error or point of improvement in v4f7 so that I can get an account at: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html (usually, I do find errors in books, esp. e-books, which reminds me, I need to pick up the corrected 3rd printing of _The Fall of Arthur_ by J.R.R. Tolkien before I read it again, since that should have the error I found corrected).
  - fmajid 3mo ago
    Yes, that article has an email for TAOCP corrections, that are processed by his secretary.
- jagged-chisel 3mo ago
  Inboxes don’t have to be digital. Inboxes, digital or physical, can be handled by other people. In any case, someone beyond the publisher will still get inundated with corrections about the PDFs and likely will demand their reward for it.
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- jjav 3mo ago
  "Inbox" used to be literally the box/tray on your desk where people would leave work for you in written letters. That's where email got the term. Amusingly in my first job in the 90s they still assigned each desk a labeled inbox and an outbox (two trays on the desk), but by then it was all email already so nobody ever used those on my desk. But they sat there for a few years as a memento to the 80s!

fmajid 3mo ago

He doesn't have an inbox: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

WillAdams 3mo ago
E-mails which are sent in about the various books used to be printed out and responded to --- I got a $2.88 physical reward check for finding an error and a point of improvement in _Digital Typography_. Not sure how they are handled now. Trying to find an error or point of improvement in v4f7 so that I can get an account at: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html (usually, I do find errors in books, esp. e-books, which reminds me, I need to pick up the corrected 3rd printing of _The Fall of Arthur_ by J.R.R. Tolkien before I read it again, since that should have the error I found corrected).
- fmajid 3mo ago
  Yes, that article has an email for TAOCP corrections, that are processed by his secretary.
jagged-chisel 3mo ago
Inboxes don’t have to be digital. Inboxes, digital or physical, can be handled by other people. In any case, someone beyond the publisher will still get inundated with corrections about the PDFs and likely will demand their reward for it.
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jjav 3mo ago
"Inbox" used to be literally the box/tray on your desk where people would leave work for you in written letters. That's where email got the term. Amusingly in my first job in the 90s they still assigned each desk a labeled inbox and an outbox (two trays on the desk), but by then it was all email already so nobody ever used those on my desk. But they sat there for a few years as a memento to the 80s!