Yo compacters everywhere, Sp00ky aka Spiritus ex Machina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> askz:
>...what books would you recommend to put on the Compact Mac Three-Foot >Bookshelf and >why? With my thriftshop shopping and donations at the senior center, I've seen and read a lot of 'em. The best of the lot in any order are: Anything written by Dave Pogue including Macs for Dummies. His writing style is marvelous! Get an edition that matches your needs. Hey, get 'em all. I did. MacSecrets by Pogue & Schorr. Excellent writing style and a wealth of knowledge. Again, in several editions to match the evolution of the Mac and Mac OS. The Mac OS(x) for Dummies by Bob LeVitus. Great stuff on the particular Mac OS of your interests. These are a great OS specific companion to the Macs for Dummies books. The Little Mac Book by Robin Williams with a specific edition for each generation of the Mac OS. From the third edition on when she was writing these books by herself, they became extremely readable with the finest index bar none. This is our text in our Mac basics classes at the senior center. The Mac is not a Typewriter by Robin Williams. While dated, this is the best readable treatment on the subject of fonts and why the Mac is desktop publishing. For reasons unknowable, this is the title most frequently stolen from the senior center. Go figger. The Whale's Song. The very first coffeetable book created wholly on a Mac: no pasteup, no typesetting. Inspirational beyond all measure. A page in the book tells about this. A companion twenty page book gives us the gory details on the ragged bleeding edge of desktop publishing technology how a small shop in Hawaii created this coffeetable wonder beyond what even Apple and Aldus imagined. The rest is history. The StyleWriter 2400 User's Manual. A damn fine treatment of fonts and what is going on with printers when you hit the pretzel+P keys. These volumes are in a set near my front door so that I may escape with them in the event of fire. The rest of those big tomes on the Mac suck in comparison. If I save these best, the rest can burn. Bill -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
