PHB2...arrrrggghhh!!

[Scribble]

Huh... Learn something new everyday as they say!

I guess it's cheaper or soemthing to print on the big pages then cut? Seems like extra steps would cost more money to me though. Or does it have to do with more wiggle room for making sure stuff is straight?

 

[Asmor]

Seeing that you got it from a brick and mortar store and you'll likely have it fixed quickly enough, I hope you won't mind if I say that's actually fairly amusing.

I'd almost be tempted to keep it as an oddity if I could spare the money for another copy.

I'm curious how the binding is. I'd imagine that the covers are set up so that there's not a whole lot of wiggle room. Do the missing pages cause the binding to be loose at all?

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Huh... Learn something new everyday as they say!

I guess it's cheaper or soemthing to print on the big pages then cut? Seems like extra steps would cost more money to me though. Or does it have to do with more wiggle room for making sure stuff is straight?

It's cheaper because you're running so many fewer pages through the press. Twice. (Unless its a two 'page' printing setup.) And that includes the plates that need to be made for the run, many fewer of those too.

 

[Nightchilde-2]

Seeing that you got it from a brick and mortar store and you'll likely have it fixed quickly enough, I hope you won't mind if I say that's actually fairly amusing.

Yeah, I was half-amused, half-frustrated by it. If I hadn't wanted the book so darned bad, it would've been more amusing. But, yeah, they fixed it lickety-split!

I'd almost be tempted to keep it as an oddity if I could spare the money for another copy.

I almost was, but considering I need all the money I can get for my trip to a nearby casino this weekend...

I'm curious how the binding is. I'd imagine that the covers are set up so that there's not a whole lot of wiggle room. Do the missing pages cause the binding to be loose at all?

In the copy I had, not at all. The binding was tight.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

I went to my local Books-A-Million and they were sold out. The guy behind the counter said they had one copy, but it was defective and missing pages.

I wonder how widespread this is?

 

[Krensky]

Huh... Learn something new everyday as they say!

I guess it's cheaper or soemthing to print on the big pages then cut? Seems like extra steps would cost more money to me though. Or does it have to do with more wiggle room for making sure stuff is straight?

Because of how real book binding is down (it involves folding and stitching) and that you only want to buy one (or as few as appropriate) presses, so buying a really big one lets you make a lot of different size books.

So you're not wasting paper and space on the plates, you arrange the pages in such a fashion that you use as much of the paper that the press prints on as possible.

 

[jeffh]

I'm curious how the binding is. I'd imagine that the covers are set up so that there's not a whole lot of wiggle room. Do the missing pages cause the binding to be loose at all?

What typically happens in a case like this is that one signature is missing and another is duplicated. For example, pages 193 to 224 probably appear twice in the OP's original copy, leaving the final page count correct (and someone else's copy will have the opposite problem).

 

[Nightchilde-2]

What typically happens in a case like this is that one signature is missing and another is duplicated. For example, pages 193 to 224 probably appear twice in the OP's original copy, leaving the final page count correct (and someone else's copy will have the opposite problem).

Nah, I actually checked to see if I'd had some duplicate pages. I didn't. They were just...missing.

I am a bit curious as to how widespread the issue is, though.

 

[WotC_GregB]

Actually, it's all part of a new cost-saving initiative. Every book will now have 1 random MU missing. This way, we can print 15-20% more books!

...I actually have no idea how this kind of thing happens. Once the book goes to the printers, it magically appears in stores several months later as far as I'm concerned.

Sorry Nightchilde-2, I hope you can find a better copy.

Huh... Learn something new everyday as they say!

I guess it's cheaper or soemthing to print on the big pages then cut? Seems like extra steps would cost more money to me though. Or does it have to do with more wiggle room for making sure stuff is straight?

 

[DaveMage]

Seems my book is missing pages 161 to 192.

Those pages will show up in Player's Handbook 4....