![]() Now that Longitude is available as an e-book, I enjoy continuing and widening the conversation via e-mail. Almost all of that early correspondence went back and forth by ordinary mail, and I wrote my part with a fountain pen. Many more people wrote to say they’d enjoyed reading the book, and quite a few asked questions the story had raised in their minds. (For example, the typesetter had inexplicably swapped the word latitude for longitude-and vice versa-on several pages.) Numerous attentive readers took the trouble to write to me to point out typos or other errors in the text, which the publisher then corrected in subsequent editions. The publication of Longitude taught me that a book can actually improve by virtue of being read. ![]()
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