Amazon preorder arrived just now. Looks great. Ideal size and binding/paper/print quality, which is unusual for books these days.
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The depth and breadth of content is, as with the previous edition, just plain humbling. Thanks to Phil for the insane amount of work that must've gone into this opus. No thanks to Amazon for the timing, as I had stuff to do today which will now have to wait. :-PAlso as with the previous edition, the title is unfortunate. A lot of people who need this book, or who would just plain enjoy it, will not bother to pick it up because they "don't do optical stuff." I guess (hope) the additional attention within the EO community is worth it, but it's a bit of a bummer for everybody else. This is one book you don't want to judge by its cover. If you like AoE3, you'll find this one very worthwhile too.
-- john, KE5FX