- For Dummies series… “A Reference for the rest of us” – wiki, site
- Teach Yourself series… – wiki – guides in a week have arrived – site
- Complete Idiot’s Guide series… – wiki, site
O’Reilly has the Annoyances, Hacks, Head First, and Missing Manual (wiki).
What are other guides that are non-intimidating, distilling topics for people to grok?
Apress calls their guides “for professionals by professionals” (technically oriented). Packt has a huge amount of books on a variety of topics.
Travel is a whole other ballgame. I visited Kinokuniya recently and saw shelves of travel guides. I’m not sure if people buy these anymore considering the vast amount of information on the Internet that exists.