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Review title: 25 pages of text, huh?
Product review: Yes, I agree a book can not be judged by the number of pages it has. I mean look at UML Distilled. But, I had certain expectations for the content and that is where the focus should be. If you remove the screen shots and code sample you are left with a book of maybe 25 pages.I purchased Katonka's book thinking I would use it as a guide, but there too many gaps of knowledge and disconnected ideas. I simply couldn't follow the project design and there was very little explanation of what and why. I think Ovanesyan's Visual Basic SAP R/3 Programming is far superior. I had to do some serious searching to find it, but it was worth it.
