Thank you for a thorough answer. It is no coincidence that I suggest books that you find good, as I have searched around quite a bit and read many posts from PF and at last found your blog posts on the subject. Not that your opinions are all that mater of course :), but no one seams to be...
I hope this is in the right section, otherwise please move it. This might be a long post and I hope someone will give it a shot. It is about books but not really a comparison between them. I will give some background first, so you might skip to the end (- Books * -) if you are only interested in...