I D/L'd the manual when it first came on line (maybe a month ago), and my impression was that it was very much an improvement on the P4 manual, as least so far as the new functionality was concerned. I confess I haven't really browsed the sections on existing P4 functionality, or tried to look at it as a newbie. I would be very suspicious of the value of any book that is published within a month of the software release, with proofing and printing times, that would probably give the author about a week to learn the ropes. By the time you get it you are likely to have had four times the experience of P5 than the writer. In the current case, even beta testers don't seem to have had much of a head start. Bill