Apparently it bears repeating:

PEOPLE

PLEASE, for the Love of All That Is Good & True & Right in This Universe, in This Year of Our RBG 2024,

DO NOT give a book low stars simply because there is something physically wrong with your copy.

The vendor that sold you the copy is not going to read your review. You are not harming the vendor by low-starring the book.

YOU ARE HARMING THE AUTHOR of the book, who has zero control over the physical condition of the book you have received.

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@courtcan my one personal exception is an ebook last year that, I can only assume, was an unauthorized scan and dump. Robert L. Forward’s Starquake popped up on Kindle to my excitement and was the worst scan: Cover obviously from a used copy, formatting problems all over, etc. i reviewed it and it disappeared the next day. I think I even got a refund.