JQuery book recommendation and can we have a books reference wiki on SO?

Question

I started looking at a book for JQuery and as usual I started perusing through reviews on Amazon. So far I'm split between Learning jQuery 1.3 by Chaffer and Swedberg vs. JQuery in Action by Bibeault. Any pros/cons and what other title would you recommend? It seems that the first title needs also a companiion for the UI, like JQuery UI 1.6 by Wellman.

And then it struck me that what I really want is a per technology book review/recommendation wiki on SO. The tags lend themselves very nicely to technology topics. This probably belongs to meta.stackoverflow.com or on uservoice, but I wanted to ask on the main site first to get a feel if this is a useful idea and how it could work.

Answer 1

I read jQuery in Action, it is well written and very useful.

Answer 2

I've not read all of "jQuery in Action", but it's more of a problem/solution-book. It's not what you'd buy to learn it, I think. If you're looking to learn jQuery from scratch, I'd go with "Learning jQuery"...

Answer 3

Almost for all my question there is an answer on api.jquery.com.

Answer 4

As the author of jQuery in Action, I'd definitely recommend it ;)

We're actually in the process of working on the second edition, which is updated for jQuery 1.3 (and upcoming changes in jQuery 1.4). Some chapters are already available in beta. Check it out at http://manning.com/bibeault2/

Answer 5

A list of Javascript reviews including jQuery in action -Javascript books - which is the book I'd suggest. I keep it near while I'm programming - what better recomendation is there.