[pydotorg-www] Request to add "Advanced Python Programming: 2nd edition" to Python Books.

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 at 02:11, Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:
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> On 4/13/22 03:23, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> > I'm concerned that the books pages are becoming nothing more than
> > Packt listing pages. Thoughts?
>
> Generally agree, but... is there anything sensible to be done about it?
> Is it better if we tell them to do something like "Packt Publishing has
> an extensive catalog of Python titles, see <link>here</link>"?

Yeah, that seems like a good option.

> Somewhat snarky aside, the Packt books I've looked at - probably a
> half-dozen or so (which given the numbers you cite isn't a very
> representative sample size) - are pretty "average", descending even to
> "poor" - but there's no rule against low quality books either.

Agreed. They're not the greatest, but that's not inherently a problem.
People can figure out for themselves what's good.

ChrisA