KISS Guide to Windows Me

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Summary: Beware this publisher!
Review: All KISS guides are very heavy, very flimsy paperbacks. Your copy will fall to pieces after a few handlings. If such shoddy workmanship is a cost-cutting measure on the publisher's part, then they are in the wrong business.

Rating:
Summary: Beware this publisher!
Review: All KISS guides are very heavy, very flimsy paperbacks. Your copy will fall to pieces after a few handlings. If such shoddy workmanship is a cost-cutting measure on the publisher's part, then they are in the wrong business.

Rating:
Summary: Kiss [your money] goodby!
Review: Keep it simple stupid refers to the writer of this volume, not the buyer. Levin seems to think he is a 'wit' of some sort, a title he claims without cause. The book is full of un-illustrative cartoon characters, way too much fluff and not enough information. Look at the table of contents and see if you can determine what is in each chapter. Look up 'keyboard' and he'll describe it for you, but you will not see a picture. He wastes a page on the Trojan horse, more wasted on Alice in Wonderland, the number of times the human heart beats over a lifetime... great time wasters, but not very informative. The author thought his job in writing was to occupy the time of those with too much of it. I bought thinking I could solve problems - all I did was create another. I should have smelled a rat when I found out that "Troubleshooting" isn't even listed in the index.

Rating:
Summary: Kiss [your money] goodby!
Review: Keep it simple stupid refers to the writer of this volume, not the buyer. Levin seems to think he is a 'wit' of some sort, a title he claims without cause. The book is full of un-illustrative cartoon characters, way too much fluff and not enough information. Look at the table of contents and see if you can determine what is in each chapter. Look up 'keyboard' and he'll describe it for you, but you will not see a picture. He wastes a page on the Trojan horse, more wasted on Alice in Wonderland, the number of times the human heart beats over a lifetime... great time wasters, but not very informative. The author thought his job in writing was to occupy the time of those with too much of it. I bought thinking I could solve problems - all I did was create another. I should have smelled a rat when I found out that "Troubleshooting" isn't even listed in the index.

Rating:
Summary: A great title ... well worth the money!
Review: This is one of the best computer books I've ever read. I knew NOTHING about computers before I read this book. Now I feel like I can really work my way around the computer. I had read many other computer books before this one, but they didn't really give me the jump start I was after. They either moved too fast, or were too technical, or assumed I knew what all the technical terms were. Rich Levin seems to assume the reader knows NOTHING about computers, and takes the reader through each step of the learning process slowly, slowly, VERY slowly, while keeping the text entertaining. I especially liked the way he opens most of the chapters with an interesting essay on some related computer topic. I learned about Charles Babbage, the true inventor of the computer, and lots of other interesting facts like that, which are not touched on at ALL by other computer books for novices. All in all, a great, and USEFUL read.

Rating:
Summary: A great title ... well worth the money!
Review: This is one of the best computer books I've ever read. I knew NOTHING about computers before I read this book. Now I feel like I can really work my way around the computer. I had read many other computer books before this one, but they didn't really give me the jump start I was after. They either moved too fast, or were too technical, or assumed I knew what all the technical terms were. Rich Levin seems to assume the reader knows NOTHING about computers, and takes the reader through each step of the learning process slowly, slowly, VERY slowly, while keeping the text entertaining. I especially liked the way he opens most of the chapters with an interesting essay on some related computer topic. I learned about Charles Babbage, the true inventor of the computer, and lots of other interesting facts like that, which are not touched on at ALL by other computer books for novices. All in all, a great, and USEFUL read.