Writing Systems: An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

I purchased this with the desire for a thorough introduction to the discipline, and while it does this decently, I found the focus a bit too meandering in its flighty jumps from written language to written language. Perhaps some will prefer this way, using the languages themselves as examples; however, I must depart by thinking that a more thorough introduction would have made the examples more substantial.