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Rush: Chemistry Book Update

Mon, Feb 13, 2006@10:05AM | comments removed/disabled

[Rush Addendum updated]

The author of Rush: Chemistry, Jon Collins, recently posted this to his blog:

For Rush readers, I have put together a printable PDF of the addendum entries found to date. There are 22 of them, we shall know in time if there are any more to be found. Of these:

- Ten are dating or timing errors
- Seven are typos and editing errors
- Five are factual inaccuracies

Truth be told, I was feeling more than slightly uncomfortable about the number of errors found in this book. As I was flicking through to put together the above addendum, I started remembering exactly how much of a mountain of information (some inaccurate) that I waded through to compile the book itself. It didn’t make me any less regretful of the errors, in particular the inexcusable typos (Getty! Argh!), but I do still believe that we did everything we could to get it as accurate as we possibly could at the time. In a word, sorry.

Oh well, onward and upward. Thanks to all those people who have pointed out the mistakes above. As indicated, the next reprint (due imminently) will fix the first ten issues in the text, leaving twelve which will probably now have to wait for the paperback.

It sounds to me that Jon is genuinely concerned about these errors (as minor as they may be) and is doing everything in his power to get them corrected. And it should be noted that reader feedback so far has been very positive. For a summary of reader feedback from Amazon and the Counterparts messageboard, check out this post. On a personal note, I've finally received my own copy of the book and am looking forward to diving into it.

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