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"Pro jQuery" - by Anonymous on 28-MAR-2013
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Everything you need to know about jQuery with nice examples AND explaination of the examples.
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"Format is unreadable on a 7" device." - by Jerry Lumpkins on 13-FEB-2013
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I'm not certain what format this book is saved in, but it cannot be read on a 7" android device using the safari reader app. The pages can't be zoomed, and it simply not readable.
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"(null)" - by (null) on 30-DEC-2012
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Excellent book! I liked it very much!
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"Cheift Architect" - by prahalad on 08-OCT-2012
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I loved this book a lot, covers almost every details and still not too heavy for end user. IMHO he should have started the book explaination by giving some insite on internal dsl(fluent api).

i loved this a lot.

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"Tolerable if not over-worded" - by SimOps on 02-OCT-2012
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If your idea of a quality techincal manual covering a highly specific area of web development (JQuery) is one in which explanations are usually far too wordy, over-written, poorly written, or just plain boring then I suppose you will find something too appreciate with this text.  As an example, this book required about 15 pages to explain a concept that was covered effectively in only 3 pages in a comparable manual.  I don't know if Apress has a policy of enforcing a minimum page limit on their authors, but if that is the case then this book is a great example of what happens when an author is seemingly forced to explode an explanation, which could have been effectively rendered in two or three sentences, into a monstrously over-worded and droning dissertation of perhaps two or three paragraphs!

I can't even take this book seriously as an occassional reference source, because the explanations are usually too incohesive.  The story of how to use JQuery selectors should not take more than a few pages, but the fact that this relatively simple topic is covered over the course of 20+ pages is just nonsense.  This obsession over explaining even the most ridiculous minutiae ad-nauseum makes the torrent of information extremely difficult to sift through and digest quickly and effectively.

In sum, if you are willing to sift through page after page of semi-useless text then this might be useful for the really patient among us.  Otherwise, I suggest other sources, or just looking up topics in the JQuery API is probably nearly as helpful as this book.
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