For someone like me, who is just breaking ground into this beautiful profession, reading “Every Page is Page One” book has been an extraordinarily rich and revealing experience. The fact that my copy is full of annotations and more than 30 pages of notes is a confirmation of this.
Because of my dual role as a database specialist and technical writer, I know Microsoft SQL Server documentation very well, but it was not after reading this book that I realized why this documentation is so well structured and comprehensive, and why this type of writing is a pattern to follow. The same can be said about Wikipedia, which is an example used in several chapters. This book provides a compelling argument against traditional books or book-style user guides and manuals, and explains the fundamentals to write documentation your users and customers will find -finally- useful. Isn’t this exciting enough?
The only thing I missed was more examples. If you open the book this may seem contradictory, because it has plenty of examples and metaphors that makes the explanation easy to follow (I particularly liked the “recipe” example), but I am referring here to examples using “real” technical documents. In this way, I think it would be great to have some examples about how a chapter from one “traditional” manual can be rewritten in an "EPPO way”, or how DITA and EPPO can both work together in a topic. Yes, I know after reading the book this is not as simple as it sounds! :)
Overall, this is an excellent book, well thought and well researched, and plenty of fresh ideas in a field that is particularly stagnant and, in most of the cases, lacks innovation. As part of my development into the technical writing and communication field, I have read several books about the subject, and this is by far the most revealing and helpful one.
If you are reading this and have something to do with technical writing, buy this book. This small investment may have a great impact in the way you think and work around technical writing.
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