I don't like Manning books in general. The writing is often unnecessarily verbose and their books contain lots of redundant diagrams. With the last book I boug

I don't like Manning books in general. The writing is often unnecessarily verbose and their books contain lots of redundant diagrams. With the last book I bought from them they refused to honour their refund policy for MEAP releases, because at the time they read my request for a refund, the full book had already been released (which was nearly two weeks after I had actually sent them a request). They still allowed me to exchange for another book, but this was not a positive experience.