I’ve been reading up on any and all documentation since I’m in the process of moving a very large site over to Drupal 7. I picked up a copy of Foundation Drupal 7 in hopes of getting a better understanding of what is new in 7 and pick up a few tricks along the way.
I find The Friends of Ed books tend to be geared more towards the designer than the developer, and in this case I am initially approaching the Drupal 7 in terms of our site content owners and less a deep technical understanding. In that regard the book was pretty solid.
The author does a fine job of explaining content types and fields and when to use them. He also goes over what the core modules do and how to configure them as well as briefly mentioning some very useful contributed modules.
While I can’t say I learned much that wasn’t already available in the online Drupal documentation, reading and following along with the examples in the book did help me understand some of the new features in 7.
There were times I wish the author would go into more detail regarding configuring a certain module or working with a content type, I do understand that this book was aimed more towards a beginner and not so much a web developer.