Well it’s here. After many days eyeing my mailbox eagerly, the first four copies of Raised by Penguins arrived today. I carefully brought in the box and opened it up to find the four shiny books inside. They were indeed rectangular, as Café Press had promised. And also as Café Press had promised, they each contained 352 pages. I chortled merrily as I flipped through said pages…
… until I noticed a strange feeling of déja vu. Hadn’t I seen that page before? Why yes, that was page 60. What was it doing in the middle of the book? As I kept flipping, I encountered the same 80 pages four times over.
I checked the next book. Surely the first was just a fluke and the others would be fine. But alas, this one contained pages 81 to 168, repeated four times. The other two copies were similar, but contained a different page range in quadruplicate.
How could they do this? Did their printers not even look at what they were binding? Did it not seem odd that the first page of each copy of the same book was different and each one started on a different page number? *shakes fist in the direction of Hayward, California*
Well after a little chat with the friendly Café Press representative, they’ve agreed to resend four copies. If I promised to give you a copy, I’m sorry but it will be delayed another week or so, unless you want to read it in 80-page installments.