On 04/16/2015 11:08 AM, alister wrote:
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:01:45 -0700, Blake McBride wrote:
As a side note, I bought a few books on Python from Amazon for use on my
Kindle. At least one of the books has the formatting for the Kindle
messed up rendering the meaning of the program useless.
Case in point.
Blake
A poor quality book
You can write bad books for any language
I do sympathise as this is something you cannot easily tell before
purchase (although there as so many good guides available on line I don't
think there is much benefit in buying a book)
Some publishers are worse about this than others. Packt
(www.packtpub.com) has some decent material, but absolutely incompetent
when it comes to formatting python code in a Kindle .mobi file. I don't
think I've ever seen *any* errata published for any of their books. I
long since decided that anything I see from Packt that I want to read...
I might find it on Amazon, but I go to Packt's site and purchase the
PDF. They have a harder time screwing that up, apparently.
O'Reilly, on the other hand, gets it right. Period.
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