Monday, February 09, 2026

better

It needs a more-than-superficial flip-through, but when I looked through my second Amazon hard copy of the 2026 edition of Think Like a Teacher, I saw that it at least superficially looked better. I'll give the book a closer scan soon, and if I see any further problems, I'll correct them and talk about them here.

Here's the most bothersome problem, which I somehow hadn't caught before initially uploading. Below, you see page 9 of the Korean-language half of the book. Note how it seems as if the chapter ends with that final paragraph. Then go down to the photo of page 10.

Did the chapter end? Click image to make clearer.

Oho! See how page 10 is the actual ending for the chapter.

Hmmm. There's more to the chapter here. Click image to make clearer.

Below, you see the second try after editing. Note how page 9's text now goes down to the bottom, so you know right away that this isn't the end of the chapter.

Click image to make clearer.

And when you flip to page 10 of the newly edited manuscript:

Click image to make clearer.

When it comes to text formatting, every change you make has implications for other pages. Most often, these implications ripple forward, but they do ripple backward, too, which is what I think happened in this case: I'd been making adjustments to the text toward the end of the document, but one or more of those adjustments caused a backwards-rippling effect that made page 9 look like a chapter-ending text. I fixed the problem, then checked forwards and backwards to make sure all was kosher before re-uploading the manuscript PDF.

With the movie-review book I'm working on now, there's nothing but English, so format-checking ought to be easier. We'll see. Thinking easier can be a trap leading to the appearance of yet more stupid mistakes. More on that as it happens.


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