I wouldn't waste time buying/using a book to learn TS. If you have experience in any statically typed language you should be able to pick up the basics just by

I wouldn't waste time buying/using a book to learn TS. If you have experience in any statically typed language you should be able to pick up the basics just by a quick peruse of the TS docs. And then even if you don't I'd still say reading the docs and just browsing existing code assuming you already know JS would get you all the way there.