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		luckylittle on April 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable ... Actually the epub is so badly formatted, that Google Play Books does not even process it and fails. When i run it through epubchecker/Calibre, it shows 215 errors. Probably something you want to look at.

l9i on April 9, 2020 [–]

Thank you for letting us know Lucian! I shared your comment with our publisher (O'Reilly).

(disclaimer: I worked on the book)

luckylittle on April 9, 2020 | [–]

Here is the patch for the faulty epub.css: https://gist.github.com/luckylittle/9a6d99def44a48796fbcb147...

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