Why are there Missing Manuals?
 Microsoft deserves credit. So do Apple, Adobe, and Macromedia.
In fact, almost every major software company has pitched in by selling
increasingly sophisticated software without a printed manual.
Instead, after paying $300 or more for the software, you're expected to
learn these complex programs by reading electronic help screens.
But online help is no substitute for a real manual. Ever try to flip between
help topics? Or try to read them over breakfast? Wish you could underline,
or at least bookmark what you found? Ah. We thought so.
That's why David
Pogue--award-winning how-to author and computer columnist
for the New York Times--teamed with O'Reilly
Media, Inc. to launch Pogue
Press. We're dedicated to producing sterling, beautifully written manuals
for popular consumer software and hardware products.
The results speak for themselves. Our Missing Manuals on iMovie 2, Windows
XP Home Edition, AppleWorks 6, and iPhoto are not only bestsellers, they're
the most popular books on their topics! And Mac OS X, 2nd Edition tops them
all. The first edition of Mac OS X: The Missing Manual was the #1
bestselling computer book of 2002, selling 100,000 copies in six months.
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What Makes a Missing Manual?
Superb, professional writing.
Warm, witty, and jargon-free,
Missing Manuals have enough clarity for the novice, and enough depth and
detail for the power user.
Complete coverage.
Each has a product overview, pointing out what
it's good for. Successive chapters dissect the entire product piece by
piece. We give you a real-world perspective: Although Missing Manual titles
feel "official" in many ways, we freely acknowledge flaws in the product--a
distinct advantage over vendor-provided documentation.
A menu-command reference.
A final appendix of each book serves as a
menu-by-menu drive-through of the software's commands and dialog
boxes.
Find out why thousands of people like you have made
Missing Manuals the essential companion for some of today's most popular
software.
Check out a sample
spread!
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