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Mac OS 9.1: Visual QuickStart Guide

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If you have NEVER used a personal computer before, are unsure what a "cursor" is, get completely confused when relatives tell you to "drag that file to the XYZ folder," and feel like an idiot when asked to select an item from a "pull-down menu," this is the book for you.

As it happens, such folk do exist -- my sister is one of them, and I bought this book for her for all the foregoing reasons. It has relieved her anxiety about computers dramatically. After all, where do you go for help if you've never heard of a "Help menu"? What do you do when your well-meaning sibling tries to explain things, but keeps using noises like "cursor" and "menu" as if you were fluent in some peculiar foreign language?

For its intended audience, this book does a fine job. But it's NOT for anyone who can already work a mouse, choose actions from a menu, or point a cursor at an object.

i recently purchased this book from amazon and i was deeply disappointed with the purchase. the book was very superficial in it's coverage of the os 9.1 operating system. i read it cover to cover and constantly hoped that it would get meatier, but alas it did not. i recently purchased os 9.1 & os x and i wanted to learn everything about os 9.1 before going on to os x. i previously used os 8.6, and there was very little that this book taught me that i didn't already know. the repetition was "mind numbing" and if the author had truly filled up all pages and deleted all of the references of what she would tell you later and what she had told you before, the book would have filled half as many pages at best. there were many earlier books on os 9 that i could have and should have chosen, but this was a more recent publication and i assumed that it would be more up to date. practically anything of substance was deemed by the author to "be beyond the scope of this book". in my opinion, this book is of little or no use to a person familiar with mac os; only a novice would benefit from reading it.

I am totally new to computers and I have many Dummy books and otherwise for my OS., but I was still having trouble understanding the 'helpful' books, til I got this one. She writes simply for a newby to understand yet covers what all the other books did, and shows enough pictures to guide you along. I'm sure there are many other books that are fine for someone who is more familiar, but this one did it for me. Thanks.