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You can get a preview of Packt books over on Safari [0]. Personally, I've found the quality of content and editing in Packt books to be consistently terrible.
by incision 13y ago
You can get a preview of Packt books over on Safari [0].
Personally, I've found the quality of content and editing in Packt books to be consistently terrible. I won't click on a Packt book in my all you can read Safari Library subscription, I certainly wouldn't pay $5 for any of them.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, I can't recommend No Starch Press [1][2] enough.
0: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/browse?publisher=83&publishername=Packt%20Publishing http://my.safaribooksonline.com/browse?publisher=83&publishe...
1: http://shop.oreilly.com/category/publishers/no-starch-press.do http://shop.oreilly.com/category/publishers/no-starch-press....
2: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/browse?publisher=59&publishername=No%20Starch%20Press http://my.safaribooksonline.com/browse?publisher=59&publishe...
- jamesbritt 13y agoI can't recommend No Starch Press enough. Still, some of their offerings have been pretty poor (there was at least one Ruby book that was ill-informed) so the best bet is to check reviews for any given book. Same for O'Reilly. Used to be I would just assume a book from O'Reilly was properly vetted and worth getting, but after buying a few clunkers I learned to do some homework before shelling out or trusting the content.
- sunnybythesea 13y ago"The Linux Programming Interface" is a top-notch book http://nostarch.com/tlpi http://nostarch.com/tlpi