The books are not trying to fill the same role. They are not in opposition but complement each other. 2 Scoops of Django is a book about patterns common to Djan

The books are not trying to fill the same role. They are not in opposition but complement each other. 2 Scoops of Django is a book about patterns common to Django, from how to manage settings for multiply environments, to how to use CBV effectively. The book showed me that the idea of CBV is to compose orthogonal functionality rather than a crutch because Django's url dispatcher doesn't have method introspection. p.d. I dislike the initial sentence of your comment as it implies certain greed from the authors. They are committed to the idea that money shouldn't be a barrier for knowledge and they will mail you a copy of the book if you ask for it, no strings attach. They sent one to me. My email didn't try to justify or imply I couldn't afford it, I just wanted to check if they would follow up in they claim. They sent my a copy right away and asked me why I was asking for one (are you a student, etc?). As he had already sent me a copy his question was of genuine interest imho. And to me the fact that he would sent the book to anyone who ask speaks volumes of his commitment to the idea that knowledge should be free. My 2c.