Take Control Books has released many new books, or revisions to previous books, over the past few months. It is important to note that you get free updates to Take Control Books until the release of a new edition. In other words, if you have the 3rd Edition of Take Control of Your Cat, you get versions 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.2, 3.3, etc., up until they release the 4th Edition. Not that they’d ever produce a book about controlling cats, since they don’t publish fiction.
I’ve had many questions about these topics over the past few months. The nice thing about Take Control Books is that you can buy, download, and start reading them immediately. You can read them on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, using Apple’s Books app. And they don’t take up any space on the coffee table or your desk.
New books include:
Take Control of iCloud 9.2 (I probably get a question about this at every meeting),
https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/icloud/
Mac Basics 1.0 (this is a general survey of everything Mac, and covers pretty much all of the utilities we’ve been covering the past several months, plus much more, including an appendix on migrating to the Mac from Windows),
https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/macbasics
Take Control of Apple Screen and File Sharing 1.0.1 (something I use in every meeting),
https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/screen-file-sharing
Take Control of iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 1.2 (updated to cover some new features added since the original release of these operating systems)
https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/ios-18-ipados-18
Take Control of iPhone Photography 1.1 (I’ve taken thousands of photos with my iPhone, and it covers many things I’ve never thought about),
https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/iphone-photography
Take Control of Siri 3.0 (the fine print says “Covers Siri on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, HomePod”),
https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/siri
Take Control of Your Apple Account 1.1 (previously called Apple ID),
https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/apple-account
Take Control of Your Online Privacy 5.1 (not always specific to Apple, and a great resource),
https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/online-privacy
If I seem to mention Take Control Books frequently, there is a reason. Once upon a time, Amazon listed thousands of books about the Mac and iPhone. Today, Amazon still has many Apple titles, but a great many of those listed are for obsolete Macs, iPhones, iPads, or obsolete software. It also doesn’t help that Apple devices usually come with just one sheet of basic instructions telling you little more than what the buttons do; the original Mac came with several complete books.
Pleasant reading.