Mr. Albert,
Thank you for buying my book and I apologize for the errors. When it comes to things I care about I'm a closet perfectionist and nobody is more pained by those mistakes than myself. Going in I thought having the book scanned would be a relatively easy process-it wasn't. Following my graduate degree, I'd finished writing a book on my ten years working in Iraq; and while waiting upon approval from the DOS and DOD for publication authorization I staked out some time to reprint my AR-10 book. Unfortunately in this wondrous age of digits and widgets things aren't as easy as they should be. I had my book professionally scanned and converted to ePub but it was a long and laborious process as much of the scans garbled and jumbled large portions of text and pictures. The "Gar" "and" lept out at me but for some reason the imaging service just couldn't splice those two syllables together. Incredibly it was FAR easier to have my book printed in Lithuania from scratch a handful of years after the Soviets left than to get it scanned in 2016/17 America! It got to the point I'd do screen shots of mistakes and e-mail them to the imager for correction. When an old mistake was corrected, a new one would pop up. It was akin to ten steps forward and nine steps backwards. I am not chastising the imaging service as they worked hard and spent a great deal of time making "crooked things straight". However I was starting my second masters degree, writing my third book, and had no time left. When I reached the 99% solution I had to launch.
I hope you like my book, and I also hope all those folks who paid $300.00 plus dollars for my original book aren't too mad at me for doing a reprint ;-)
Sincerely,
Sam Pikula
