Cubing Books

[dChan]

Anyone have a reccomendation for a good cubing book? Besides the obvious "The Winning Solution" by Minh Thai?

 

[AvGalen]

Hopefully we will be able to get Bernett Orlando's book soon.

 

[pjk]

What type of info would you want in the book? I can almost guarantee any book you find won't include anywhere close to what you can find online about cubing.

 

[AvGalen]

I actually like books (even about cubing) because they are mostly very well written, illustrated and original. Too many sites focus on a list of algs (useful), but only the great sites give you useful hints on the "how and why" of a method.

A great example is the http://www.rubik2jazz.de/3P_PS.htm website. It probably has great information on it, a good idea and good technique. BUT I just don't understand. No editor would have published a book like that.

 

[dChan]

lol, yeah. I don't care what kind of book it is. I just want a book wit a good system(that I don't know) and maybe a little bit of cubing stories in it(like competitions). Or a bok with cubing concepts. Anything really, just tell me what the book has in it, it would be really helpful.

 

[Me]

ha! who needs books to find out how to do something anymore, we have the interweb!

 

[AvGalen]

Who needs videos when we have written tutorials?

Who needs written tutorials when we have videos?

Point is that most web-information is made by 1 or 2 enthousiastic cubers, but hasn't gone through a professional editor.

Books still have their place.

 

[dChan]

Yeah, I like books too because you don't have to print if the method is 100 pages long ,lol.

 

[pjk]

I can see pros and cons to both. But for cubing in particular, I wouldn't buy a book. All top cubers are online and mostly avaiable all the time. However, there is some hacking stuff I was reading in Barnes and Nobel that you can't find online as far as I know, so that is one niche I would buy a book for.

 

[dChan]

But ayway, any good cubing books you have heard of? I am not always online and my parents hate me printing all the stuff I do so it would be kind of useful.

 

[joey]

I don't think there has been any that you are looking for. All the books I've seen are just very simple solution books.

 

[AvGalen]

Does anyone have more info about his book?

 

[dChan]

lol, how old is he now? He is amazing with his cubing.

Is there a book with a lot of solutions or interesting cube info, etc.? And where do I get the Winning Solution?

 

[AvGalen]

He is 10 or 11 now
I don't think a book with more than 2 solutions exists
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