Good post. As someone interested in HTML and CSS, the books available are so unfathomably meagre with useful, new content - the newest books are basically even

Good post. As someone interested in HTML and CSS, the books available are so unfathomably meagre with useful, new content - the newest books are basically even worse. There's this culture of making CSS books that largely repeat themselves with very random compositions. Often, they make a site and slap on some CSS3. I don't recommend learning HTML and CSS from anywhere else than HTML Dog, CSS Pivot, and just playing around with your own experiments. It boggles the mind that this can really be the case - CSS hasn't changed a lot in many years, and the big difference is mainly that there's a larger chance that a browser will support your code. Having said that, there still are purposes for some books. Just look at the Python debate. Getting into Python is a pain in the ass compared to HTML/CSS. I am currently annoyed that I can't find an up-to-date Django book, and DjangoBook.com is not a very good resource - it seems to suffer from the wiki syndrome where a lot of co-editors have removed any sense of style and red thread to follow.