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Re: All Packt ebooks are $5

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Post by davidjgraph »

I fell for a promotion a while back, the quality of the books I got was simply awful (based on 3 books). None of them were worth paying for, just deleted them.

There may be decent stuff in there, but my experience leaves me unwilling to ever try and find them.

Re: All Packt ebooks are $5

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Post by berntb »

There has been quite a few offers from Packt and O'Reilly this autumn. A pity I filled up my reading buffer before. (I mostly read literature on the iPad, paper for work stuff so I can lend it to people.)

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Post by thu »

davidjgraph wrote: post #3

I fell for a promotion a while back, the quality of the books I got was simply awful (based on 3 books). None of them were worth paying for, just deleted them. There may be decent stuff in there, but my experience leaves me unwilling to ever try and find them.

I was once contacted to write a Haskell book about "Data Analysis". I said it was not really my field and asked for sample chapters of some Haskell book they had, if any.

I received back an answer with how to proceed, just as if I had accepted to write the book for them, without any specific answer to what I told them.

This didn't seem very encouraging and I didn't try to have additional information.

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Post by sharprazor »

davidjgraph wrote: post #3

I fell for a promotion a while back, the quality of the books I got was simply awful (based on 3 books). None of them were worth paying for, just deleted them. There may be decent stuff in there, but my experience leaves me unwilling to ever try and find them.

Out of curiosity which books did you buy (so I can avoid those titles).

Re: All Packt ebooks are $5

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Post by jackgolding »

There are some real gems in here for data guys at least - here is two to recommend:

Building Machine Learning Systems with Python

Data Visualization: a successful design process

Disclaimer: They gave me a book for free to write an article on once, other than that I am not affiliated.

EDIT: I see many posts about the quality of books published by Packt, the data vis book I recommended is written by an leader in the field of it (Andy Kirk.)

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