Looking at the many usenet posts like "Which book should I buy" etc. a book ranking sounds like a very good idea.
But would such a ranking be helpfull to the buyer or newbie? Books are different, and so are the needs of Perl users.
So if we introduce some book ranking, it should be better than the stuff we allready find at the net. Well the best thing we can do is writting more reviews, and trying to encourage newbies to write reviews as well. I want to know from the newbies which book gave them a hard time and which one was easy to understand.


Hanamaki
-- I learned Perl with Camel 1

In reply to Re: Book Ranking by Hanamaki
in thread Book Ranking by hsmyers

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