[AccessD] Access Book recommendations sought

Heh.. Yeah, it is amazing how many folks seem fire off comments on those site, and often it is very obvious that they either have read/heard/seen what they are commenting on, or if they did, they totally missed the point.  Sometimes the comments are just someone having a rant about the pet hobby horse of the week.

Good quality comments and feedback (positive or otherwise) are often valuable for other consumers, but there is usually a lot of sewage to wade thru to find those nuggets of usefulness.  In some ways I can see the whole 'social media' experience drowning in it's own tsunami of babble and hum.  Pretty sure at some point folks are going to see quality of comment over quantity... But hey I have been awfully wrong on this stuff before and severely underestimated the market depth for cheap, shallow and meaningless nonsense.

On a side note, In Oz there are some pretty tight laws about what you can say in public, especially in Advertising and the media, and the courts here have just decided that Companies are responsible to ensure all comments on their Facebook page are accurate and within the laws regarding advertising.  This is because the courts here decided that their Facebook page(s) are actually commercials, and therefore any claims made on them must be factual and not misleading.  There must be folks who are employed just to monitor social media comments these days.

<<http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/watchdog-clamps-down-on-facebook-20120805-23nva.html>>

Way OT, but maybe of interest...
Cheers
Darryl.


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
Sent: Saturday, 18 August 2012 10:41 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access Book recommendations sought

>
> I searched Amazon and saw two promising candidates, neither of which 
> I've read. They are *Brilliant Microsoft Access 2007 Forms, Reports 
> and Queries*(which is pricey), and *Microsoft Office Access 2007 
> Forms, Reports and Queries*, by Paul McFedries (much cheaper). Cost is 
> not the deciding factor.

=======Did you check the online reviews? You have to be careful -- some readers are just anal -- but they might give you a clue as to which might fit the bill best. I once had a reviewer really trash one of my books, but said enough for me to realize he wasn't even talking about my book! He dropped a line about one of the male authors... um... not me. :) Amazon removed it for me. So, don't let negative remarks sway you too much -- unless they're all negative. :)

Susan H. 

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