Books for a new user

> My daughter acquired her own Mac for Christmas (a last gen. 12"
> powerbook running Leopard) and I'm looking for book recommendations.
> She really is a naive user, and will be using the Mac for web
> surfing, email, writing papers, and watching DVDs (she's a film
> student).

My daughter just purchased a MAC Book Pro/17" for her husband, who was
a longtime PC user. The greatest suggestion that I had for them,
besides why didn't you get me one while you were at it, was to go to
Amazon and purchase Mac OS X - Leopard: The Missing Manual.

I have one for Panther, which is what my wife and I are still running
and it is a terrific book to set you straight on things that use to be
obtainable from a paperback user manual from Apple.

If you can't find it there , then the IOMUG gurus are the one's that
can set you free.

Bob

> My daughter acquired her own Mac for Christmas (a last gen. 12"
> powerbook running Leopard) and I'm looking for book recommendations.
> She really is a naive user, and will be using the Mac for web
> surfing, email, writing papers, and watching DVDs (she's a film
> student).

I am an old-time user of Macs but when I went to Leopard I bought Mac
OS X Leopard Edition by David Pogue. I am finding it very useful.

Happy Holidays,
Kathie

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Niall O Broin wrote:

> My daughter acquired her own Mac for Christmas (a last gen. 12"
> powerbook running Leopard) and I'm looking for book recommendations.
> She really is a naive user, and will be using the Mac for web surfing,
> email, writing papers, and watching DVDs (she's a film student).

The Missing Manual books are fantastic, and a good place to start.

There are versions for the Mac itself (Leopard, etc, as noted by other
commenters) and also for switchers, so if she is coming from a Windows
background, that one might be worth looking at too.

The other option, of course, might be a One-to-One membership to come in
for training at a store, if that's the way she'd prefer to learn...


--
Chris Devers

>I'd prefer paper book suggestions to ebooks, as I think she may be
>more likely to read the paper books, but I wouldn't exclude ebooks
>completely.

Most of our ebooks are aimed at a somewhat more experienced user, but
I'd recommend Robin Williams's "The Little Mac Book: Leopard
Edition." Robin does a fabulous job of helping novices.

http://www.amazon.com/Little-Mac-Book-Leopard/dp/0321509412/tidbitselectro00/

cheers... -Adam

There is "Take Control of Switching to a Mac" which I bought for my wife last year. I would recommend it to people that are switching over from Windows to a Mac. Aaron