I think you have identified the problem.
All of the books available are good.
Some are especially good.
The one you like best will be the one which conforms to your way of 
thinking.
Free books are always preferred to expensive ones.

John Ferrell
http://DixieNC.US

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Chops Westfield" <westfw@mac.com>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC] - Book Reccomendations for beggining PIC Programming


> On Apr 25, 2005, at 9:37 AM, Ale[x] Garbino wrote:
>
>> Why doesn't the list as a whole write the darn book?
>
> Huh?  we can't even agree on which chip should be featured...
>
> More seriously, any of the popular PIC books (Predko, Peatman, etc) should 
> be a
> pretty good for a large subset of beginners, especially combined with the
> datasheets and an online forum (like PICLIST) or two.  There are things 
> I'd
> do differently than those authors, but I thing it would be very hard for 
> ANYONE
> to publish a book that was better in all respects...
>
> BillW
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