"hack" job of rewriting the referance manual by a technical writer with no apparent experience of using the actual product in question.."

Well like I was trying to say. There always very much the same. Poser 4's book was identical to Poser 3's book etc. Thats because you cannot just come out with any tutorial or "inside" book. You first must be granted liscence and then you are "given" the material that you are alllowed to work with. Thats usually how it works. With some variation here and there. Thats why when you look at different how to books, you will see thje same tutorials. Perhaps worded differently. But the screen grabs will be the same. The thing about all these how to books, they don't give away locations of 100 Percent of the tools even though they may rtefer to them in a tutorial. However, if you can't find a tool its very easy to go online and ask someone. I figure that perhaps the software companies know that people may try to use these books as though they were a manual and they are okay with it. Charge a ridiculous $45 for a book and at least they get some money from a warez user.