Mac OS8 Visual Quickstart Guide
By Maria Langer

http://www.gilesrd.com

Peachpit Press

http://www.peachpit.com

ISBN 0-201-69645-2, 281 pages
$17.95 U.S., $25.00 Canada

Last month I reviewed four new books on Mac OS8 (See BookBytes, Issue #33, January 1998). This new book by Maria Langer arrived too late to be included.

I am rapidly becoming very fond of Peachpit’s Visual Quickstart Guide series. Each book combines informative text with outstanding graphics and screen shots on *every* page. They are “reference” books in the absolute sense: I refer to them on a daily basis. The writing is consistently straightforward, the pictures are excellent, and the price is affordable.

Every book’s design has a column of text on the outside of each page, with applicable visual components on the inside. The result is very effective for learning, and for seeing how a particular item looks on the screen.

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