Even later printings of the first edition of Code lose a lot of that nice hefty handbook feel, unfortunately.

I've mostly stopped recommending O'Reilly books at my public library because in many cases the printing has been so bad, it's embarrassing. Just-in-time manufacturing, I guess.

It's not like the old days when books were heirlooms with attentive layouts, quality paper and ink, and solid bindings. Addison-Wesley's offerings come to mind, even softcover books from Prentice-Hall. And especially the ancient Computer Science Series from McGraw-Hill College.

Manning and No Starch do a better job these days.

Here's a new hardcover many here could appreciate:

Heavy Wizardry 101: Shellcodes, Backdoors, Droppers, and Worms

by David Martínez Oliveira, aka Pico

https://nostarch.com/heavy-wizardry-101

	▲	so-cal-schemer a day ago \| parent [-]
		s/mostly/almost/ O'Reilly still puts out many great, serious books with good formatting and decent binding + paper + printing. Many of the new titles on machine learning, for instance.