Title: Extensively padded
Product review: This book probably could have been half its present thickness if the authors had cut out needless repetition and large graphics that illustrate simple points. For example, half of one page is taken up showing a web page with an alert box, just in order to tell you what an alert box is. Scripts are done piece by piece, and after each additional snippet of code, the entire script is reproduced. The index really shows how the publishers padded out the book - each page is two columns of very large text with huge borders on all sides and between the columns. The information contained in the book is fairly good, but I don't like to feel that I've been ripped off by paying for a 1000-page book that by rights should have been a 500-page book. I have found that I tend to reach for my Dynamic Web Publishing Unleashed book a lot more frequently - it covers basically the same topics, plus quite a few others.
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