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I agree with you that the earlier versions of Classroom in a Book (CIAB) content, developed in a happier, more fully edited, age and brought forward into the Version 7 edition, retain their original quality.

Lamentably, things ain't what they used to be. I think if you try and do the FrameMaker 7 specific lessons in the CIAB you'll quickly see what I'm talking about. The content was obviously thrown together and rushed out the door. Even simple editing and use-testing could have eliminated a lot of "rookie" level inaccuracies and inconsistencies.

I hold no position on the suitability of the CIAB to do the job it sets out for itself. (Although if Adobe can't prepare a stand-alone tutorial that introduces the use of new product features, who can?) I do, on the other hand, think that simple proofreading and validating of procedures is not too much expect.

IMHO, Adobe would be doing itself a favor if it went back and validated the version 7 content before it appears in a version 8 CIAB.