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   Scott Dorsey to All   
   Re: F&SF   
   30 Jan 26 18:44:51   
   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Ted Nolan   wrote:   
   >Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   >>I haven't got a copy of any SF magazine since the Covid shutdown and I   
   >>was shocked at how poor the physical quality was.  The paper on the   
   >>covers is much thinner and poorly-made than in previous years, and the   
   >>printing was very uneven with some streaks of very light printing and some   
   >>streaks of very heavy printing, like a badly-worn and poorly-adjusted   
   >>web press.  Nothing was illegible but some pages took some studying.   
   >   
   >See, well-printed & well-bound *is* important :-)   
      
   I wasn't expecting National Geographic quality... and these days National   
   Geographic doesn't even come close to National Geographic quality...   
   but this was just no good.   
   --scott   
      
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