[Kumabjorn]

Well, if you want an overview it will be either textbooks or popular science. When you enter the realm of academic books the subject is much more narrow and you have to ensure a third or so which deals in method. When reading those for my own erudition I simply skip those parts since they don't add anything that interests me.

Also, I should have been clearer. By academic books I just meant books written by academics. Big difference when writing for tenure and when writing for market.

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