Product Description

Are you looking for a book that focuses on just the most important and most useful stuff about your iPod (including the iPod touch, the nano, shuffle, and the iTunes Store)? Well, this is it!

There are basically two kinds of iPod books: (1) The “tell-me-all-about-it” kind, which include in-depth discussions on compression algorithms and tutorials on how to export your playlist in Unicode format. (2) Then there’s this book—a “show-me-how-to-do-it” book. Scott shows you step by step how to do the things people really want to learn about their iPods, and he uses the same casual, conversational style that has made him the world’s #1 best-selling technology author. This book focuses on just the most important, most requested, most useful things so you can start having fun with your iPod today. Right now! Plus, there’s only one topic per page, so if you want to know how to do something, you turn to that page and it shows you how to do just that one thing. It's a simple approach, and people really love learning this way!

As an added bonus, you can check out the best iPod accessories by visiting Terry White's Tech Blog (http://terrywhite.com/techblog).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #101383 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780321569356
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Scott Kelby is the world’s #1 best-selling author of computer books (for four years running), and is the awardwinning author of The Digital Photography Book (Vols. 1 & 2), The iPhone Book, and The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, among others. He’s also Publisher of Photoshop User magazine and President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.

Customer Reviews

Very Disappointing
Let me start by saying I like Scott Kelby, and I have the credit card statements to prove it.

But with these books he's just phoning it in. Along with the Gen-X har har humor (lots of "Hey" and "eh?" and "ya know" to give you that folksy feeling) you would like a little meat. There are about 60 pages devoted to Playlists, which are pretty much self-explanatory, and only two very sketchy pages about syncing iTunes with an iPod, which can be pretty frustrating if your preferences aren't set just right. Interested in Podcasts? Scott pretty much breezes over it. For example, in the Podcast part of the Library, what are the blue dots next to some of the Podcast titles? What are the checkmarks? Do the checkmarks determine which podcast episodes get synced? I'm not entirely sure, and you won't find out from reading this book.

I had hoped to find out why some music can be dragged to the iPod icon on the left while others cannot. Apparently it has something to so with the preferences and how much autonomy you give iTunes to automatically sync music.

If you have the iPod Touch, you might want to know about the multi-touch gestures. How do you zoom in or out? Nothing here that I could find. What about the hints that pop up inside the web address screen? I'd love to know how to use them, but Scott either doesn't know or thinks I must already know. Maybe he wants me to buy his iPhone book to learn these things.

Also, I couldn't find any mention of the MP3 downloads available here on Amazon that cost less and are not encumbered with DRM.

All in all, I found the book a little too breezy and boostery. Too much space allocated to easy stuff like accessories and visualizations, not enough space devoted to the effects of preferences and complexities of syncing. Admittedly this is just me and those who bought an iPod yesterday may well find it useful.

not worth the money
I was very disappointed in this book, which really doesn't even contain as much information as the online manual. I bought it when I was having trouble with my iPod and needed to know more than the manual explained; I know there are good books out there with this information, but this is definitely not one of them. For example, there are five steps listed in the manual that you can go through in order to reset or restore an errant iPod; this book lists only the first, simplest step, and never even mentions the possibility that it might not fix the problem, much less what to do in that case. Don't waste your money on this one.

You don't need a book to use your iPod...or do you?
Hey, I'm a Scott Kelby fan, but I thought surely I don't need a book to use my iPod and iTunes. I was wrong. Sure, I had all the basics down. Everything was working fine. Until I picked up this book and found out what I was missing.

Do you use Smart Playlists? Do you understand them? Do you know where your library is and how to back it up? Is your sound equalized?

Whether you have an old-style iPod or the newest Nano or iTouch, this book covers it all. In an organized, easy-to-understand way. Take your iPod and iTunes to the next level.