Big books are a bad trend (Score 1)

I've found that there are too many places trying to cash in on the Linux craze by having 'everything you need to know' books, usually by many unknown (and yet likely underpaid) authors. These huge wastes of good pulp never deliver on their promise.

A subject like Linux is just too big. Linux installation, Bash shell (ineteractive and scripts), GUIs, applications, server software -- all of these should ideally be in different books where they can be covered in good detail.