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At the same time at least some of the content is quite technical and will go straight over the head of a real novice.
I think if you're a design student, a recent graduate, or someone attempting to get to grips with new media you'll probably benefit from this book.
For the chapter I wrote... I think it's really geared towards people with a pretty good understanding of typography already, and definitely slanted towards those building large scale sites on tight/continuing deadlines for a wide variety of systems and browsers.
And, for sure it'll be out of date pretty quick... but you can learn from our mistakes :-)
For the greater part of today's design world whom are specialized, they will find a number of articles that offer tremendous insight and fresh ideas that they can incorporate. Leaving a number of chapters that can be appreciated, but are of no real relevance to today's digital designer