I have reviewed so many technical books that were simply bad copies of the documentation. And that by authors who have written 10 books.
And the (rather big) publisher didn't seem to care at all.
And the (rather big) publisher didn't seem to care at all.
10 books from an author of technical books is a negative signal. There's not a lot of money in writing technical books so there's an incentive to pump out books without concern for quality. I remember trying to learn C++ in the 90s and nearly every book I read was complete garbage (the authors seemed to think that C++ was C with different comment syntax and using cout << in place of printf). It wasn't until I read the first STL book that things finally clicked.