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Re: When to use screenshots

Subject: Re: When to use screenshots
From: Peter Neilson <neilson -at- alltel -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:33:16 -0500


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 03:25:59 -0700, <tstorer -at- free -dot- fr> wrote:

I'm wondering if any of you out there use explicit guidelines for when
writers should use screenshots.

When I'm BUYING a book on some sort of software I usually flip through
it to see if it has lots of screenshots. If it does, I don't buy it,
because I assume the writer failed to address the essential concepts
and used screenshots instead. For instance, for a DB book I would
much prefer a serious discussion of the five normal forms, with several
exemplary tables, than to see a bunch of screenshots purporting to
be in the various normal forms. But the latter book's a lot easier
to write.

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