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Book & Product Reviews

We currently have relationships with two major publishers: O'Reilly and Peachpit Press. Both offer review copies of their books. If you are interested in reviewing a book, contact the librarian who will order the title. You will then have 60 days to submit the review. The review will appear on our website and also sent to the publisher. Upon completing the review, you may keep the book or donate it to the SCUM library (which we greatly appreciate.)

For you folks new to writing reviews, O'Reilly has a good page called "Book Review Guidelines." Please check it out. Click here.

We also have software vendors and other companies who offer the their products for review. They are also listed here.

Date Added	Book & Product Reviews (PDF)*
April 2009	Software Review - "Dreamweaver CS4"" - Review by Dan Bellack
July 2008	Software Review - "Dreamweaver CS3"" - Review by Dan Bellack
May 2008	Software Review - "Toast 8" - Review by Brian Sandilands
Mar 2008	"Photoshop, Restoration and Retouching" by Katrin Eismann, 2006, 460 pages, published by Peachpit Press - review by Fred Offenbach
May 2006	"Mac OS X Tiger, The Missing Manual" by David Pogue, published by Pogue Press - review by Marge Goody
July 2005	"Scrapbooking With Photoshop Elements 3.0" by Lynette Kent, published by Sybex- review by Lois Johnson
July 2005	"Upgrading To Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger" by Tom Negrino, published by Peachpit Press - review by Joe Kimble
Apr 2005	"The Photoshop Elements 3.0 Book For Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby, published by New Riders - review by Dan Bellack
Apr 2005	Software Review - "GoLive CS" - Adobe Software - Reviewed by Dan Bellack
Mar 2005	"Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0, Classroom in a Book" (Windows Version) - review by Fred Offenbach
Aug 2004	"Inside .Mac" by Chuck Toporek, published by O’Reilly Media, Inc. - review by Brian Sandilands
July 2004	"iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual" by J.D. Biersdorfer, published by Pogue Press/O’Reilly – review by Paul Baba
Apr 2004	"Photoshop Elements 2 Hands-On Training" by Shane Rebenschied, published by Peachpit Press – review by Fred Offenbach
Apr 2004	"iMovie 3 & iDVD" by David Pogue, published by Pogue Press/O'Reilly – review by Phil Chan
Mar 2004	"Web Design In A Nutshell" by Jennifer Niederst, published by O'Reilly – review by Dan Bellack
Mar 2004	'Apple Confidential 2.0' by Owen W. Linzmayer, published by No Startch Press/O'Reilly– review by Dan Bellack
Jan 2004	Sample - "Mac OS X Disaster Relief" subtitled 'Troubleshooting techniques to help fix it yourself' by Ted Landau and published by Peachpit Press
Jan 2004	Sample - "iPhoto 2 –The Missing Manual" by David Pogue, Joseph Schorr & Derrick Story published by Pogue Press/O'Reilly

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