Making lemonade in the library
DOI: 10.1063/1.2962994
George Kattawar’s review (Physics Today, February 2008, page 64 ) of the book Iridescences: The Physical Colors of Insects by Serge Berthier (Springer, 2007) may have set a record for the number of negative comments. After a brief review of the author’s previously published French version, Kattawar goes on to point out that “Berthier’s book could have been a very nice piece of work if it had been proofread to correct the plethora of errors in grammar, history, and references to figures.” And that is only the first sentence of about 15 column inches of critical comments.
One wonders if there should be a lemon law for books.
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Dana L. Roth, (dzrlib@library.caltech.edu) Millikan Library, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, US .
