And to me, I have no problem keep such disparaties in their own places. I know that there is an effort to make everything mesh to, but just as the open architecture of PCs leads to numerous incompatibilities, so does the very nature of several writers giving their own takes on Star Wars stories. Just as with the films, some books are good, and some books are crap. You just have to be realistic about what was intended, rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater.