1. On the primary Book Dialog, the left panel, "Available Items", each item should include the name of the currently selected individual, e.g. "Ancestor Tree of …". Sometimes the wrong individual is indicated. For example, if I am the currently selected individual, my father's name will appear on all the items. 

2. Some book items understandably have an associated "primary individual", such as the GenRpts. FTM complains when you attempt to edit a book item whose primary individual has been deleted, giving you an opportunity to select a new individual. However, all book items are so treated, whether they reasonably require definition of a primary individual or not (e.g. text items). 
3. Adding items to the book, the highlighting moves to the next item in the left pane list. This is hardly an aid to the user, as the likelihood that the very next item in the list is the type that the user wishes to add is no higher than any other, including the one just added. Best to leave the highlight position alone.

so treated
 

1. Roman numbering: There is an option in Book Properties to "Use Roman numerals for Table of Contents & preceding items". A common style puts the Acknowledgements after the Table of Contents, but also numbered with Roman Numbers. FTM cannot produce books in this style.

3. Printing: The Book Facility has an option on each item to "start on odd page", but no provision to actually print a blank page when necessary to accomplish this. The next page number is simply made an odd number, which screws up the recto-odd verso-even page relationship when printing the whole book, especially in booklet form.
4. Printing:There is no provision for adding pages at the end of the book to prevent printing on the back cover of the book. This is particularly important if printing booklets: the last page of the index becomes the back cover.

5. Options: Print Book Item offers a "Print Quality" selection that is not available in Print Book.

1. Long titles: There is no provision for multi-line titles. To compensate, one must use shorter titles, or set them in smaller type.
2. Custom titles: When building a book, if the title of an item is to be changed, this must be done in two places: [Mce]
1. In the report itself, using the conventional Contents | Title & Footnote dialogs
2. In the book Table of Contents, using the Properties dialog for the item to be changed.
3. Default titles: Default titles in the Table of Contents are different from those on the reports. E.g. "Outline Descendant Tree of John Doe" (TOC) and "Descendants of John Doe" (ODT).

1. Pagination: One can compose a book from a number of different reports and text items, but there is no provision to protect one important aspect of such a collection: the page numbering. If one section is revised, the page numbering of it and the remainder of the book may change, invalidating the Table of Contents and Index. Generally, the whole book must be reprinted. 

2. TOC: Items placed before the Table of Contents cannot have their "Begins Chapter" attribute changed, that option being grayed out in the dialog.  The item may be moved after the TOC, the attribute changed, then the item can be restored to its position preceding the TOC with the desired chapter attribute. 

3. Book, Custom Report: One cannot create an empty Custom Report in a book except by trickery: Create a dummy individual, list her in the report, then delete her from the file. 

4. Display fonts: Special characters don't display in some dialogs, but do in others. E.g. this em-dash displays as a blot in the Item Properties dialog, but displays properly in the Book dialog behind it.