>>When you wrote "Hacker's Guide", did you make sure that things behaved with different platforms?
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>Did all three of us test every item that went into the book? No. Did I test everything I wrote? Yes. [snip...] FWIW, very few of them were OS-related.
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Tamar,

What I think would be great is the Hacker's Guide as an on-line (subscription-based or advertising-supported) resource. This type of resource should not be constrained by the snapshot-in-time, cast-in-stone nature of books. The product evolves, how we use it evolves, what we know about it evolves, other technologies evolve, etc. A published book format requires so much more thorough testing, since it is almost impossible to correct errors in a way that reaches the purchasers. But an on-line document can be corrected and updated almost immediately.

So if the 10th reader discovers an error, you'll probably have it fixed before the 12th or 15th reader has seen it (assuming the 10th reader tells you :>). And, if it were subscription-based, you might even have a record of what other readers had visited that specific topic and could notify them that the topic had been updated. Very cool--what book could do that?

Regards,

-- Randy