The copy reviewed was “watermarked” as “Review Copy: Not for sale,” so it is not clear whether this is a final edition or a beta release. As is the nature of the electronic publishing business, updates are easy to produce, which makes a review at least potentially (maybe likely) focused on a moving target.
The cover page is an attractive collage of colorful photographs of plants. After some legal pages pertaining to the review edition is the Table of Contents (TOC). But each entry there is the alphabetical starting page number; this is not too valuable for an electronic book that is easily scrolled to the right letter of the alphabet by simply pausing on pages during the scroll. Moreover, the page numbers in the TOC refer, but do not electronically connect, to those printed at the top of the electronic pages–but not to the page numbers in the viewing...
University of California Press