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If you take a look at the website more closely, you will find that Packt books are rarely on the top. Your comment is actually well reflected in the ranking. Y

by gh1 9y ago

If you take a look at the website more closely, you will find that Packt books are rarely on the top. Your comment is actually well reflected in the ranking. You had a problem with the Dusty Phillips book ranking on top of Powerful Python. And I can personally guarantee that this book is out of the world good and deserves that spot, if not higher (though the book above by Luciano Ramalho is also very high quality). Here is my review of the Dusty Phillips book, in case you are interested [0]. On your last point, it is certainly best to judge a technical book solely by the content. The problem is : you don't have access to the content until you buy the book. You can of course take a look at the TOC, but doing that for all books in a given field would take a lot of time. It is always nice to have some other indicator that correlates well with quality e.g. average reviews or popularity so that you can reduce the problem space. This is what PythonBooks aims to provide. [0] http://pythonbooks.org/python-3-object-oriented-programming-second-edition/#review-row http://pythonbooks.org/python-3-object-oriented-programming-...

bogomipz 9y ago
>"If you take a look at the website more closely, you will find that Packt books are rarely on the top. Your comment is actually well reflected in the ranking." Rarely on top but still a high ranking relatively speaking(2-4 etc.) >"You had a problem with the Dusty Phillips book ranking on top of Powerful Python." I didn't have any problem with this book and even mentioned I hadn't read it. I simply used it as an example of a book that had another perhaps more popular retail outlet than Amazon, that's all.
- gh1 9y ago
  > Rarely on top but still a high ranking relatively speaking(2-4 etc.) If you look at the beginner book section, the kid's section and the application walkthrough section, there are almost no Packt books there. In the reference book section, the Packt book ranks last among 6 listed books. In the individual topical sections, there are on an average 5 books listed per topic, so 3-4 is a pretty low rank. The only two exceptions are the ML book by Sebastian Raschka and the high performance book by Gabriele Lanaro which are ranked in the 2nd position. Both of these are outstanding books in their own domain and deserve their spot. I see your point about Powerful Python having another retail outlet, but I think the same is true for all the other books because they too have other retail outlets.

by gh1 9y ago

bogomipz 9y ago

>"If you take a look at the website more closely, you will find that Packt books are rarely on the top. Your comment is actually well reflected in the ranking." Rarely on top but still a high ranking relatively speaking(2-4 etc.) >"You had a problem with the Dusty Phillips book ranking on top of Powerful Python." I didn't have any problem with this book and even mentioned I hadn't read it. I simply used it as an example of a book that had another perhaps more popular retail outlet than Amazon, that's all.

gh1 9y ago
> Rarely on top but still a high ranking relatively speaking(2-4 etc.) If you look at the beginner book section, the kid's section and the application walkthrough section, there are almost no Packt books there. In the reference book section, the Packt book ranks last among 6 listed books. In the individual topical sections, there are on an average 5 books listed per topic, so 3-4 is a pretty low rank. The only two exceptions are the ML book by Sebastian Raschka and the high performance book by Gabriele Lanaro which are ranked in the 2nd position. Both of these are outstanding books in their own domain and deserve their spot. I see your point about Powerful Python having another retail outlet, but I think the same is true for all the other books because they too have other retail outlets.