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Reading Modern CMake for C++ and absolutely loving the book. It's really well-written in a way that is both succinct, but explicit, so you're never left guessing as to the author's lesson. I'm not sure if it's a feature of the Online Reader or something that authors explicitly have to do, but loving the stylized text to help emphasize important concepts, and love that I can take notes online. Can also access the book on my iDevices so I can read it anywhere.

The subscription model is based on, to put it mildly, highly dubious 'business practice' where you can't stop subscription, the only option provided is to pause is for up to three months, then they continue to charge your credit card. It seems that the only way to stop it is to send a request to help desk and wait. Advice - make sure you use prepaid credit card with limited amount of credit when dealing with Packt to avoid abuse.

I signed up for the free trial. Packt said that my free trial would end on 2/2 and I'd be billed, which with I was fine. However on 2/1, a day early and during the free trial window, they tried to bill the card. I got lucky that my card flagged it as potential fraud and didn't allow the charge. I came here to see all the other billing reviews and it seems consistent with what I experienced and I won't be joining based on that experience.

At a glance, it looks like they provide up-to-date contents. However, they are just overwriting the published years. The most of the contents are old and doesn't provide relevant contents.

I bought a few technical books from them since one or two years ago. I signed to have access to lots of books and no problems till now. The user interface could be better but it works. Many good books, good authors.