>>Hi,
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>>For several years now (maybe even longer :)) I completely cannot motivate myself to read technical books.
>>I read tons of non-technical: biographies, thrillers, romance novels, non-fiction, etc. etc. But I can't make myself read technical stuff.
>>I get emails of these "short" technical books from Syncfusion. They are free and succinct but I still don't even open them.
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>>Am I the only one who is that bad?
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>As Dragan said, they're generally awful.
>Books by Deitel and our Tamar Granor are shining exceptions- to the point with great examples- but in general the level of most tech writing is terrible.
>Recently I bought an E book on PHP.
>That author would lead you through a torturous example and then after I had spent several hours with it he'd say "That's one way to do it, but not the best way"

I agree that the VFP books were very good. But then again, that was the time when I/we was/were learning the stuff that we were using every day. Now, the new stuff, is mostly to "complement" our work. And I tend to forget what little I learned, and go in circles.