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by Raphaellll 1626 days ago
I actually bought this as a physical book on Amazon. Naturally it came as a print-on-demand book. Unfortunately it has many problems in this format. E.g. the lack of margins makes it hard to read the end of sentences towards the gutter. Also some text is pushed into each other. Not sure what source file format you have to provide to Amazon, but it's certainly not the pdf provided in the repo.

Edit:

It seems the overlapping text also occurs on some pdf readers: https://github.com/BoltzmannEntropy/interviews.ai/issues/2

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The last 5 textbooks I bought new on amazon had similar problems. Totally unacceptable. I started returning them and (because most were exclusive to amazon) started buying them new on ebay with great results.
It's really a hit and miss. This [1] book also came as print-on-demand but looks perfectly fine. Good layout and clean colors.

[1] https://mml-book.github.io/book/mml-book.pdf