I have a bunch of copies of the older Carrara Studio 3 book. Free for the asking, you pay just shipping ($2 in the US approx. if choosing media mail, I recommend $4.05 for priority mail though if you're interested in reading it this year ) http://www.thebest3d.com/carrara/freeBook.html Yeah it's not a book to teach the basics. That came with the tutorials with the program. And the 600-page printed dead tree aka reference guide misnamed user guide. If you still are hanging on to your beloved MacOS 9 system (or even OS8) you'll be happy to know that there's a demo version of CS3 that works for OS8, 9 and even 10 to Tiger and Windows. Just in case you're curious. Oh and I read somewhere (eovia3d.dnet I think) that the march issue of 3DWorlds or Computer Arts magazine has Carrara 2 and Amapi 6.1 on the CD coming.) It's not the latest but still one of the greatest there was and for starving artists an interesting option. 6.1 was my alltime favorite.