Is this book worth buying in 2020？ NoIn summary， With Sams Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 hours on my shelf， I stopped using Emacs。 It is more effective to learn Emacs with the build in tutorial， help files （only shared in Chapter 11） and google searches。 First off， 24 hours， seems like great， I can learn it in a day， in fact it turns out to be month， with an hour day。 Might as well be called 24 days， it'd be more honest and not appeal to our quick reward mentality。 Second， a topic like emacs shoul Is this book worth buying in 2020？ NoIn summary， With Sams Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 hours on my shelf， I stopped using Emacs。 It is more effective to learn Emacs with the build in tutorial， help files （only shared in Chapter 11） and google searches。 First off， 24 hours， seems like great， I can learn it in a day， in fact it turns out to be month， with an hour day。 Might as well be called 24 days， it'd be more honest and not appeal to our quick reward mentality。 Second， a topic like emacs should not be taught chronologically。 Everyone has a different purpose for using emacs so putting "General Help Facilities in Emacs" in Chapter 11 when it should be part of the intro is not great。 Third， in Hour 4 in instructs how to install library called template from the CD。 I do not have a CD drive and I could not find it online。 To the books credit， on the back of the cover is a quick jump index to commonly used topics。 If I end up using these before the book is returned to the library， I will update my review。I'm not a professional reviewer， I have no intention to be a professional book reviewer。 Therefore my reviews do not try to be objective， instead they are my experiences with the book。 I share to that because me rating a book poorly does not mean the book is bad， it just means I did not like it。 。。。more