Your Favourite Third Party book?

[cutterjohn]

(05-04-2014 01:57 PM)John W Kercheval Wrote:  Yes that is it the Insights pair. Those are the most useful. thanks.

The HP48 is a tough machine to get going on. Very powerful but lacks the intuitiveness of the 41/71s. Programming it- which I do not do, is a killer.

And the instruction manual is terrible. Really more of a reference guide.

The insights books are very helpful.

hmmm I never found programming the 28S/48SX/49G/50G to be "difficult", and found the manuals that came with the 48S/GXs to be very useful and the LAST ones to actually come with any meaningful printed documentation.

Even though I'm lacking my 48sx, I still have the manuals around here(somewhere) that I reference from time-to-time for basic function information and especially RPL.

That said I did pick up The Definitive User's Guide to the 48/49/50g
http://www.amazon.com/The-Definitive-Use...rds=hp+50g

Being the only in print reference that I could find for the 49/50g. (Just found unavailable entries for printed user manuals on amazon, and missed the ones that hpcalc.org used to have IIRC...)

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I suppose that I should mention that the 49g came with a GREATLY cutdown printed user's manual and the prime & 50g came with essentially useless little pamphlets...

I really do NOT like reading PDF manuals(or books or magazines) on a computer(or notebook) at all.

Fiction, history texts, etc. i.e. things without a great deal of complex formatting OTOH I DO like on eink ereaders. (As an aside I've NEVER found a PDF converter that does an even halfway decent job of converting PDFs to ANY other format UNLESS the PDF is extremely simplistic/single "column"...)
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...almost forgot also had this pretty cool book w a great deal of information on the Saturn CPU and assembly programming that I purchased when I had the 28S. Can't find the book ATM so I've no idea what the title was(definitely small run feel type of book about trade pb size) author's name looked to be Polish as well IIRC.

Realistically though I learnt most useful information by experimenting and comp.sys.hp48
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