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-Confusing transitions between theorems and examples in the main text, with theorems and examples not clearly delineated from surrounding text (particularly where they end), making it hard to use the book for reference as you work problems;
-Examples that have too many steps skipped;
-Problems which are often much more difficult than the examples in the text (that said, many of the problems in T&H are quite good, which I suspect explains the longevity of it as a text, well that, simple inertia among profs who have their lectures already written, and the publisher's sales staff :).
*I* could use it as a reference as it does cover a lot of topics pretty well. So what. If I'm teaching the material I *better* have a mastery over the material in the book! Student have got to be able to use it and they don't have that mastery. Bad organization simply obscures the material which, while not difficult from a straight mathematical standpoint, IS pretty difficulty conceptually IME.