>There are some good ones from MS Press. Lots of them, actually. The only ones I have been disappointed by are the Step By Step series. Those don't work for me at all. Type in step 1 on your computer, type in step 2, type in step 47. I quickly lose the forest for the trees.

I have several Microsoft Press books that are not Step by Step that I don't like.

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>O'Reilly is another good tech publisher once you get past the weird covers.

Doh! I dunno how I left them off the list.