While the actual writing of the book seems to be pretty good, this is a very poor e-book. For some unknown reason, all the code samples/snippets seem to have been inserted as images and they render poorly (blurry). Why they didn't just use a fixed space font, like Courier, for code boggles my mind.

I bought this book, sight unseen, at the recommendation of a colleague who is a Python expert. He said it was the best book on Python he'd ever had. The writing seems pretty good, as near as I can tell. Sadly, however, the book is nearly unusable for me. I am visually impaired. Ebooks are a godsend to me, since I can change the font, and read them in white-on-black mode for better contrast. I need to be able to make the type larger to effectively read a book. But this book uses *images* for code listings, rather than text. Inline, the images are too small for me to read. When I zoom on them, the quality is so low that I can't read the special characters in the code--but those are essential for learning the syntax of a programming language. On top of that, code that is in the main text, which is in a fixed-width font, does not resize when I change the global font size. I wish I could get a refund. I should have downloaded the sample first. This book makes me intensely frustrated.

It truly is. Cannot part with it, but wish the e-version were made more accessible with index links, etc. Insispensible.