The Isaacson book: (a) contains some amount of content that seems to be ripped straight from Hertzfeld's Folklore site. (b) reads in many places like a reporte

The Isaacson book: (a) contains some amount of content that seems to be ripped straight from Hertzfeld's Folklore site. (b) reads in many places like a reporter's notebook - a bunch of notes to follow up on, but no actual followup, no contextualization, and no help to the reader. (c) contains very little factual content new to me, and thus probably to any person well-versed in Apple's history. Based on that, I assumed at the time that it was rushed into production, without any significant editing, to capitalize on the death of the subject. Capitalism! It's simply not a very well-written book. The defense of it in some quarters is puzzling. Andy Hertzfeld's Folklore site, on the other hand, is a treasure. Someone should put it out in book form again (and do it right this time -- O'Reilly gave it an inappropriate and bad mid-90's cover design, saddled it with a generic name, and made the images -- screenshots of early designs of the first significant mass-market graphical interface -- so small as to be nearly illegible).