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I've bought some of the books mentioned in the article, and many more which have been marketed with similar tactics, and have generally been disappointed with m
by rainl 13y ago
I've bought some of the books mentioned in the article, and many more which have been marketed with similar tactics, and have generally been disappointed with my purchases.
They are often the authors first book, heavy on the white space, with large fonts and so on, haphazardly organized, and night and day from something like a Pragmatic Programmers title.
I'm as susceptible as anyone to the copywriting strategy of "this book will solve your particular problem and, if you save even an hour, it pays for itself" but too many launches of this type have soured me on self published business and technical books unless there is absolutely no other place to get the information.
As a rule of thumb, if someone is selling a book in multiple "packages" , to me its an indicator that the quality will be poor and I will regret the time wasted reading it.
- joelhooks 13y agoI've had a significantly different experience, and have directly benefited professionally from Nathan's books, a couple in the list, and several others of this nature.
- TBInman 13y agoSeconded
- zrail 13y agoI think most everyone in that list offers a no questions asked money back guarantee, if you're that unhappy with your purchase. Nobody wants an unhappy customer, that's why those guarantees exist.
- michaelbuckbee 13y agoThe only ones I can vouch for are Mastering Modern Payments [1] and Sketching with CSS [2] - both of which have been enormously helpful. A few more thoughts: these authors seem like a very reasonable set of people, if you had issues with their books they'd probably give you a refund. Personally, I'm glad that we're done with the days of going to the bookstore and the technical section being dominated by 3 inch thick books that regurgitated the standard documentation of a programming language to pad things out. 1 - https://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments https://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments 2 - http://www.sketchingwithcss.com http://www.sketchingwithcss.com
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