I'd already mucked about with GarageBand for awhile when I got this tome, so while it was helpful in areas, I'm the kind of computer guy who shuns a manual until absolute necessity is kicking me in the rear. Actually, Apple made that easy by not providing a manual...which is why David stepped in to produce one. I think this is one of the books David signed at an event in Pittsburgh, at the Carnegie Science Center's Omnimax Theatre. I met David...and forgot that he might not recognize me from 25 years previous, in High School (when he was just as funny). Anyways...the Missing Manual is extremely informatively written, with a healthy dose of David's irreverant sense of that he injects into everything -- I no longer feel so bad about my constant punniness. ;-) ( )

As the cover states, this is "the book that should have been in the box." The list of keyboard shortcuts, alone, is worth the cover price. ( )