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Taz Tally's "SilverFast: The Official Guide" seems to be very difficult/expensive to get any way besides eBook. But it also seems like a very worthwhile source of sophisticated HowTo and WhyTo.

Is anybody familiar with the eBook version? Is any of it color? Does it lose too much by omitting the CD-ROM the hardcopy had? Is it current enough to be generally relevant to using SilverFast v6.6?

Dear Dick,

No, we do not have any experience with the eBook. Perhaps another user has already bought it.

You might want to check our PDF documentation found at: http://www.silverfast.com/documentation/en.html

Cheers

I went ahead and bought the eBook version. It was pretty cheap compared to the SilverFast Ai Studio license and the MacBook Air I bought to run it on.

The eBook is black and white only. (The real book (pBook?) may have been as well, I don't know.)

In addition to the sample image files referred to throughout the text, it also omits the following sections:

Bonus 1 Making Slides Come Alive
Bonus 2 Positive Experiences from Your Negatives
Appendix A Manual Calibration
Appendix B Keyboard Shortcuts

all of which are, apparently, included in the CD content. I can't say, not having them, whether those sections are particularly worthwhile. That said, I'm not thrilled about the omission, and it seems eBooks ought to somehow be able to attach stuff that started out on a CD pretty simply, but for what I paid, it is what it is.

I don't really have any good way, yet, to calibrate how dated the content is compared to SilverFast v 6.6.

Hi Dick,

Dick W wrote:The eBook is black and white only. (The real book (pBook?) may have been as well, I don't know.)

The printed book is also B&W

Dick W wrote:I don't really have any good way, yet, to calibrate how dated the content is compared to SilverFast v 6.6.

We do not have the book either, impossible to tell.

Cheers