Re:Cool Factor . . . (Score 2, Interesting)

I've currently got the 'Actionscript 2 Garage' book on my safari bookshelf, and it seems to suffer from the same lack of focus. Its tone of voice is intended to suggest matter-of-factness (is that a word?) but in fact the book has lots of gaps and covers topics very unevenly. There is no information there that isn't available in other books, only the style is (slightly) different. It does indeed seem to aim for the 'guys working in web design who think O'reilly books are boring' demographic.