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I saw this advertised on product hunt. Apparently it's a good thing that you can read it in 1.5hrs. Maybe but not with a $79 price tag for a PDF.

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The amount of value I got out of reading this PDF will far exceed $79.

I'm mostly a backend guy who does the Bootstrap thing. The techniques and examples in the content are gold for someone like me.

It's more of a reference book so you continue earning back that investment over time.

You can get a lot of his tips for free here in this curated Twitter Moment: https://twitter.com/i/moments/880688233641848832

I'd happily pay $79 for original content _in print_ that delves into why each of those tips works the way they do (you can connect each of those tips to fundamental principles of design, for example).

But for a compilation of tweets in a PDF? There are renowned books that go for less than that. I got 3 hard back volumes of Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming for around £70. Is this book of that caliber?

And, what do other design professionals say about it? From a quick perusal of their material, accessibility seems missing from it (e.g. contrasts, designing to work with assistive technology etc)

I am interested because I find design books to be too theoretical, and at the end I'm left thinking "Yes and..?". I need practical examples. I think I would get $79 of value, but it would also last for 12 months before the content dates.

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