I was contacted by Packt a few months ago to be a possible author of an eBook on the {{Raspberry Pi}}. As fun as that sounds like it would’ve been, I am in no way qualified to write on the topic, as I’ve both never used one, and don’t really have the time to play with one.<\/p>\n
Fast forward to last month, and now instead of writing the book, they’d like me to be a “reviewer”. That sounds kinda fun – you get your name in the credits, and get to help maybe sell a couple copies by giving feedback on the content, structure, flow, etc.<\/p>\n
The problem with this has been, so far, that the author(s) have such a poor command of English that the book sounds more-or-less like it’s been written by a grade schooler. So, instead of “reviewing”, I’ve put on my editor’s hat, and am trying to help the fella that wrote it bring it up to a level folks can understand \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was contacted by Packt a few months ago to be a possible author of an eBook on the {{Raspberry Pi}}. As fun as that sounds like it would’ve been, I am in no way qualified to write on the topic, as I’ve both never used one, and don’t really have the time to play …
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