Title: Dated and poor quality.
Product review: The material in this book was already dated in 2005 when the previous gushing reviews were written. I didn't waste my time doing more than a cursory look. I've worked with Spring for some time -- off and on -- and simply put this aside. It is very, very rare that I send a book back but this one is being returned.The paper is poor quality and the book is fat with small pages. The size makes it very difficult to open flat or even read easily. Remember those cheap books that'd fall apart when you'd crack them open a few times? That's this one and I'm not waiting for that to happen. Back it goes.Actually, I'm not against using low quality pulp paper in technical manuals. These go out of print or out of technical relevance very quickly so good paper is a waste of money. But that doesn't mean a new book should have 7 year old technical material. Nor should the pages be too small and the binding set to fall apart.Really, the price is too high for the book to be this shoddy.
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