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Don't even get me started on the mediocre books. It's a shame, because there are still some very good books being produced with the O'Reilly name on them, but
by JPKab 13y ago
Don't even get me started on the mediocre books. It's a shame, because there are still some very good books being produced with the O'Reilly name on them, but no longer can I trust them to be good because there's an animal on the cover.
The worst book I have bought in the past two years was O'Reilly's Building Node Applications with MongoDB and Backbone.
My quick, capsule review of that book: Piece of Shit. Bad example code, horrific continuity, next to no editing, it had everything needed to be lumped in with the crappy tech books. Ironically, the "Sam's Teach Yourself" Node.js book (which I had already gone through and was hoping to expand upon with the O'Reilly purchase) was vastly superior.
I wish I could get my money back, but I don't think Amazon does refunds for ebooks.
- ilamont 13y agoI wish I could get my money back, but I don't think Amazon does refunds for ebooks. There is a one-week window to return ebooks in the U.S.
- franze 13y ago>Piece of Shit. Bad example code, horrific continuity, next to no editing, it had everything needed to be lumped in with the crappy tech books. exactly the same can be said about their couchdb-book (first edition) i have worse things to say about their "Data Source Handbook", the fact that they STILL sell it is unbelievable but to be fair: the functionalJS book and DOM enlightenment (see http://domenlightenment.com http://domenlightenment.com) were quite decent. both books recommended.