Okay, this is a well written engineering textbook. However, after just a few weeks of light desk use, the binding is starting to fall apart and I’m not sure it’s going to be in very good shape by the time I’m done. It started off new and it really seems like they cheaped out on the binding quality with the glue and spine. The pages are very nice though.<br><br>I like that the author apparently took the time to photograph a lot of the things for explanations and even to use in some of the problems (instead of pulling all stock footage or using drawings). There is a lot of material covered and I felt that some things could use more types of worked examples, but on the whole I’m happy with it and I’m glad I finally paid for a hard copy after dealing with a crappy online e-reader I rented it through at first for my Statics class. Being able to flip through real pages looking for stuff is so much more efficient than pressing a button and waiting five seconds for the page to turn or maybe log you out. The disadvantage of the real book is that it’s big, expensive, and heavy. I really wish buying the textbook would give you (legal) access to a pdf of the book.