What You're Not to Read

For Dummies books are hugely popular with busy people keen to get to the heart of a subject quickly because you can capture the wisdom between these yellow and black covers fast. To that end, you can easily identify the material you can skip through. This information is the stuff that, although interesting and related to the topic at hand, isn't essential for you to know and includes:

  • Text in sidebars. The sidebars are the shaded boxes that appear here and there. They often share personal stories and observations or bits of history and background information.
  • The stuff on the copyright page. No kidding. You find nothing here of interest unless you're inexplicably enamoured with legal language and reprint information!

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