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[Mike Parker]

On Monday, 13 January 2020 at 11:58:51 UTC, mark wrote:

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> Both those books are published by Packt who normally have no 
> quality control at all as I've discovered to my cost. However

It's hit and miss in my experience. I've picked up some utter 
crap from them, but I've also found some real gems. There's no 
real vetting of the authors they sign, so the writing quality and 
knowledge level vary. Assuming those are up to snuff, much 
depends on feedback from the technical reviewers and the author's 
ability to evaluate the editor's revisions.

Packt's editors follow a rote process where certain words and 
phrases are *always* replaced from a set of alternatives and 
certain phrases are *always* inserted in certain circumstances 
(e.g., to introduce a code snippet) without any regard for the 
surrounding context. Fortunately, they give the author a chance 
to review the edits before publication. In my case, they were 
willing to accept my revision of the revisions (the ones I 
caught, anyway). Sadly, I never had a chance to do the same with 
the two chapters they published online.

I can attest that Adam's and Kai's books are worth the buy. I own 
and have enjoyed both. If either of them were to do a 2nd 
edition, I'd pick it up!