Rating: 

We're using this book in a college course I'm taking. This book contains a massive amount of really good information, which has been buried in a landslide of unnecessary blather. Add to this the complete lack of a sensible, extensive index, and this book leaves me so frustrated, I am nearly ready to drop the class.

The amount of useful information in the book makes it difficult to remember it all at one time, but it's impossible to find anything a week after I've read it without leafing through an entire chapter or more, page by page, because the index is so brief and incomplete.

With a good, complete index, I'd give this book 4.5 stars for it's excellent content (withholding 1/2 star for all the blather). Without a usable index, the book is nearly worthless to me.

Would O'Reilly consider giving buyers a supplemental index, or a searchable electronic index? I would love the book, if I could just find what I want to find in it

Thank you!