What is important to you when buying a book?

[partygirluk]

For those who have not, I recommend reading my recent thread on SSH.

I am thinking of other questions I could ask that would give the majority of users a good "at a glance" guide to a book.

1 question I am almost certain to add is

Is the book mainly theory/hand examples/hand quizzes ?

Anything else?

And are there any questions that I put in that thread that are not that important, as I want to remove waste.

Best wishes,

Dean

[oreogod]

1. Does it pass the Cloutier test (as in a healthier alternative to all those wasted trees)
2. Helped your game a lot or little, how much improvement, etc.
3.How helpful were the quizzes.
4. How good of a job did the authors do to convey their message and did they succeed, etc.

Actually these may have all been asinine suggestions, but I do like the Cloutier question.

[Hammertim]

Well, along with good descriptive text, and examples, quizzes etc...

I like it when a book on game play actually sticks to it's premise. I suppose some "others" make for some good stories about when "I had no cards in my hand and won a pot". Thanks, we all have our stories playing cards.

But frankly, i hear the old timers tell me stories every time I play cards anyways...