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This is a multi-title review. Titles include 'Teach Yourself MCSE Windows NT Workstation 4 in 14 Days', 'Teach Yourself CGI Programming in a Week', 'Teach Yourself PC Upgrades in 10 Minutes', 'Teach Yourself the Internet in 10 Minutes', 'Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours', and 'Teach Yourself the Internet in 24 Hours' - SAMS Publishing has four time-linked series letting the reader choose between 14 days, a week, 24 hours, or ten minutes. The times are more a guide to depth of information than a realistic measure of length of study-anyone ever try to read a 200-page book in 10 minutes? Still, the series provides good material for all sorts of beginners. Whether patrons are new to computers, new to a category (e.g., networking), or just new to program upgrade, they will welcome these well-illustrated introductions. If you have a beginner's technology section in your library, any of these books will find welcoming hands. Generally, the '10 Minutes' and '24 Hours' titles on popular topics are the first choice, and you should realize that even the '14 Days' titles are not substitutes for substantial references.-