Re: [AH] Push Turn Move

From Florian Anwander
Sent Wed, Aug 1st 2018, 07:49

A co-musician of mine has the book, and I could have a look through it 
for two hours. I have to say, I did finally not buy it. The text is ok 
contentwise, but the overall book fails on the layout and the pictures.

The running text is often broken up by several pages and by too many 
inserts. You get lost while reading it. You have the impression that the 
layouter wants to distract you from reading the book from start to end. 
(This seems to be something wide spread in new music-technical 
literature: An absolute negative example is Sylvia Masseys "Recording 
Unhinged", which to read drove me crazy)

And about the pictures:
If you do a book about design, then you should not picture it in the way 
of a 1980's tourist information fllyer.
* many images are too small (use less but larger images).
* many images which shall explain comparisons are not comparable with 
each other (if you want to compare how some UI-detail is solved on two 
devices, then you should not use a detail picture of one device and an 
overview-picture of the other device).
* picture legends are missing or don't get to the point

Maybe I am biased, as I am an author of two synth related books and have 
made the layout of many many issues of a special interest magazine and 
of technical books (not on synths).

Summary: This looked to me like the typical crowdfunded home-made book. 
The physical quality is good but contentwise you wish they would have 
done it with an experienced editor.

Florian

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