HVAC Bible for Beginners: A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering HVAC Technology. Repairing and Installing Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Systems for Residential and Commercial Buildings

I had to stop reading. There are mistakes, contradictory statements, typos, confusing sentences and duplicates everywhere. Unclear, awful.

The content of this book was very weak compared to all the other HVAC texts I’ve bought, and too much of the content is ‘chatty’ anecdotes from the author that add nothing to understanding of the technical topics (eg “Somebody bring me a box of tissues because I am on e [sic] who is not too fond of endings”). It even concludes “So as we say goodbye …don’t hesitate to call in a professional”. This book is ok value and has good technical information for beginners, as it says in the title (not a guide for installation). Most of all, it is NOT AS SHOWN (in colour in Read Sample) but printed in black and white on cheap, thin paper. This makes so much of this book UNREADABLE in places, especially the diagram. For a technical book there were too few diagrams (mostly text) but the few diagrams included made it hard to understand the more technical aspects (see photo). It’s so poor it feels like a FAKE copy rather than from the authorised printers - this is now one of several HVAC books bought here on Amazon that have been exactly the same (I’ve bought plumbing text books and they are fine, it’s just the HVAC books where there has been a problem). Overall, very little merit to recommend anything about this book compared to other HVAC texts. Sending this back.