This review pertains to the Kindle edition.

I gave 5-stars to an earlier DTB edition of this book, starts which this edition deserves as well, except for this one thing, which Kindle users should be warned about: the text is laid out for a wider screen than a handheld Kindle and so code examples wrap lines. The author puts code comments in a faux-column, using table to line them up to the right of the code and on a narrow screen the wrapping throws the formatting off so the code becomes difficult to read.

Since this is a code book, that's a big problem.

Install Kindle and load the book on your development workstation, though, and the formatting is clear on the wider screen, so if you can do that I highly recommend the book. As has been true in past editions, Flanagan's writing is first-rate, lively without being lame, and the content is thorough, well-organized, and voluminous. ( )