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Poor establishment makes this book difficult to use effectively
By jose_monkey_org
I don’t use much Google Talk (most of the people I talk to use IRC, SILC, or AIM as real-time chat), but I have had the prospect to use it some. I was looking forward to this book to see if it would be suitable to learn more in regards to Google Talk and how to get more out of it. I have to say that I’m disappointed in the quality of the writing and the establishment of the book. The writing tries to be cute and funny, but the clarity suffers dramatically for it (the necessaries discussion in Chap 2, plug-ins in Chap 5, etc). Furthermore, the institution of the book jumps around too much, mixing core usage of GTalk and extra uses (ie video or audio chats) too much. If the book had kept a basic theme to it — put the mutual stuff up front, then talk with regards to extras tardily and with increasing complexity and rarity — it would have helped. However, different from some Syngress books, this one uses screen shots efficaciously and clearly.
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