Windows 98 Annoyances By David A. Karp
October 1998
Pages: 464

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Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal featured on the cover of Windows 98 Annoyances is a European common toad (Bufo Bufo). There are more than 200 species of toads found in all continents except Australia and Antarctica. Toads are closely related to frogs, but they generally have shorter, sqatter bodies and wartier skin than frogs. The European common toad is greenish-brown in color, with a dusty white belly. Its thick skin is covered in warts both big and small. It grows to approximately 8 to 12 centimeters long. Their preferred habitat is large ponds or lakes. As tadpoles, European common toads eat plankton and single-celled animals. As adults their diet expands to includes insects, especially ants, and invertebrates. They will occasionally eat small lizards and frogs. A less savory aspect of their diet is their own skin, which these toads sometimes eat after shedding.



Like many toads, the European common toad secretes a foul-tasting substance from its skin, making it less appetizing to potential predators. They are occasionally eaten by snakes, hedgehogs, and birds. Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book using a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover layout was produced with QuarkXPress 3.3 using the ITC Garamond font. Whenever possible, our books use RepKover™, a durable and flexible lay-flat binding. If the page count exceeds RepKover™'s limit, perfect binding is used.



The inside layout was designed by Nancy Priest and implemented in FrameMaker by Mike Sierra. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were created in Macromedia Freehand 7.0 and screen shots were created in Adobe Photoshop 4.0 by Robert Romano. This colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary.

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