On 5/1/2023 9:14 AM, Will Martin via tlhIngan-Hol wrote:
The reason the second edition had everything in an addendum is that, in those days, pages were printed with printing presses. You did all the electronic stuff to create all the text and illustrations and instead of using a laser printer to print the book, you created physical rotating drums that were inked and rolled over moving sheets of paper. It was cheaper to create more drums for the addendum pages and keep using the old drums for the first edition pages than it would have been to replace all the drums.
I’m pretty sure that they print books electronically now.
Re-laying out a book, even electronically, keeps the process more or less the same. It's much easier to just add an addendum to the back than it is to lay out a whole book all over again. Whether it's done with physical plates or on a computer, it's labor-intensive. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name