Books: Scoot Kelby or Martin Evening

I have both books now, Scott's is 10x better FOR ME. YMMV. Both address the differences between Mac and PC.

I'm waiting for the books that cover 1.1 to be released, personally... although Scott has mentioned a free update (.pdf form?) of his book. In the meantime, I've checked both out from local Library. I like Scott's sense of humor, and walkthroughs at the end are nice... but I am more drawn to Martin's book for some reason.

I have Evening's book, and have perused Kelby's book in the bookstore.

Evening tends to deal with principles and Kelby tends to deal with "how to's" or solutions to a particular problem.

I prefer Evening's approach; "how to" may solve one problem very well, but often cannot be extrapolated to a different case. If you learn the principles, they can be applied to any case.

Perhaps this is my background in engineering - learn the principles well, and with experience most any problem can be solved. Learn two good tricks, and you have . . . well . . . two good tricks and nothing more. That's the difference between science and technology.

Glenn NK wrote in post #3370925
Wondering if anyone noticed my avatar . . .

Nope, not me........

Nother vote for Kelby's books. I have used books by both authors and while they each oare very infomrative, I like the step by step layout in Kelby's books. His books are more like a reference guide.

I have both of their books on CS2 and they are both very good, but take a different approach to teaching. If you want to know how to do something in PS with more of a recipe type approach, Kelby's is the best book. If you are interested more in understanding how things work, get Evening's book. Probably its best to get both of them

davidcrebelxt wrote in post #3370922
I'm waiting for the books that cover 1.1 to be released, personally... although Scott has mentioned a free update (.pdf form?) of his book. In the meantime, I've checked both out from local Library. I like Scott's sense of humor, and walkthroughs at the end are nice... but I am more drawn to Martin's book for some reason.

Unfortunately I already bought his book before the unofficial announcement of 1.1. How do you go about getting the pdf? Or should I say, where did you find out that info regarding the free update?

I can't stand Evenings Book. Glad I only paid shipping for it.

In2Photos wrote in post #3371416
Unfortunately I already bought his book before the unofficial announcement of 1.1. How do you go about getting the pdf? Or should I say, where did you find out that info regarding the free update?

From Scott Kelby's comments on his own blog post, here:
http://www.scottkelby.​com …007/archives/21​1#comments

See comment #8.

No details on what form the update will be... I'm sure not a whole new book, but quite possibly an addendum, or updated pages in .pdf format would seem likely.

davidcrebelxt wrote in post #3371442
From Scott Kelby's comments on his own blog post, here:
http://www.scottkelby.​com …007/archives/21​1#comments

See comment #8.

No details on what form the update will be... I'm sure not a whole new book, but quite possibly an addendum, or updated pages in .pdf format would seem likely.

Thanks!

In2Photos wrote in post #3371459
Thanks!

I feel honored... I got to point you towards some information for a change!