Reiterating what petercooper said: if learning by book isn't your cup of tea, don't do it. On the other hand, lots of people find books helpful. Additionally, w

Reiterating what petercooper said: if learning by book isn't your cup of tea, don't do it. On the other hand, lots of people find books helpful. Additionally, while plenty of people may find benefit in this document as a book used for self-led learning, my real goal with it was to release material that can be used for teaching. In that scenario, the people reading it have already expressed some interest in learning jQuery with the help of someone else, rather than just reading the docs.