Ok. Not purposely a collector's edition. But has anyone else out there gotten a copy of Hibernate in Action that has all of the pages flipped upside down? I suppose you could also say the outside cover is flipped. Either way, when I got my copy from Amazon yesterday, I opened the book and was staring at the last page of the index, flipped upside down. How funny is that? Plus, along the bottom edge of the front cover were the words "BLACK CYAN MAGENTA", and along the bottom edge of the back cover "JOB #2481 - 109419 DATE: 08-16-04"

Obviously an error during printing, but I was curious how many others got one like that. My co-workers look at me funny when they see me reading my HIB book upside down (the book that is).

wtf!?

I guess you can get a replacement for that...

...unless you like it that way ;-)

Well, I certainly hope it *is* a collectors' item--I mean, it better be extremely rare!

But seriously, send me a message (maba@manning.com) and I'll have a proper copy mailed to you--and keep that one, of course. I am sorry about this.

Sure thing. Thanks for the offer. The actual text looks to be fine, but I am starting to tire of standing on my head everytime I need to reference the book.