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I saw that Humble Bundle recently placed 48 of these massive Disney collections for sale in PDF format for about $25 for the lot. As these (particularly the Carl Barks books) were huge parts of my childhood, I leapt at the chance. A comfort-food book, certainly, but fun to flip through and catch a peek of my younger self.

My first 2026 Women in Translation Month read.

I do not want this book to end.

Still slogging through this. A book full of very interesting information, but aside from the atrocious translation (see previous update), there are serious grammatical errors that an editor would have caught. Incorrect noun-verb agreement, poor application of definite/indefinite articles, and black-sheep words that don't seem to belong to the sentences in which they are found.

Sticking with it, though. Wish me luck.

I'll be honest, this will not be an easy one for me to complete.

The translation is among the worst I've ever seen in a published book, and this includes vanity press releases. I feel qualified to offer this, as someone who has translated Russian into English for 45 years. Further, a good deal of it has dealt with the sort of aerospace technical stuff Degtev has written here.

More to come, I'm sure.

I'll be honest - and clearly without knowing how the book will end - this could just as easily have been a very compelling read if it ended on the last chapter I finished, Chapter 17. That would have (arguably) been a very fitting finale.