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Title: Bad design and weak writing; good technical info
Review: There's nothing wrong with the technical information in this volume. What is missing is good book design and good editing. The book is unnecessarily repetitious and it is impossible to follow the outline easily without keeping one finger in the table of contents. A trained editor would have made use of the many possibled variations of type fonts to clearly distinguish main points from sub points. All levels are in the same face, same style, with miniscule size differences. Whatever happened to ALL CAPS, italic, caps and little caps, underline, and the other possibilities? I don't expect this to read like a novel, but neither should it be difficult! Or tedious! (It's both!)
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