eBook reader review

Description says:
"Eddie Tapp on Digital PhotographyThe second book in the series, Color Management, delves into a topic that has needlessly become a mystery to the growing ranks of experienced digital photographers: avid amateurs, serious students, and professionals moving from film to digital. With his easygoing yet authoritative style, Eddie Tapp explains how color management is a part of the overall photographic workflow. He shows readers exactly what they need to know and why they need to know it, and teaches the three stages of color managed workflow — including calibration versus profiling. Color management scientist Rick Lucas provides expertise on the hard-core technical aspects, and the book's appendix offers the newly released Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines (UPDIG). Other books on color management can be too long, involved and intimidating for average consumers.This absorbing book sets the right tone and supplies answers quickly."

Is it worth buying?
Or would it be wasted on me ?

You would be better off using the money to buy a monitor calibrating device (Spyder 3 or Huey) as a basic first step in calibrating your system.

These devices work by putting various colour swatches on the screen the device then reads the RGB values and compares them with the known values in a file, it then compiles and installs a monitor 'Profile' which means the monitor will display accurately the RGB values of every pixel in your image.

The problem with colour management is every device from camera, scanner, monitor and finally printer uses the RGB values in different ways in hardware.

For instance your monitor is emmiting light ( a bit like a projector) so positive colour mixing is taking place (R+G+B=White) whereas your prints are using reflected light and uses negative colour mixing (C+M+Y=Black) (your printer has a black cartridge as Cyan, Magenta and Yellow can't produce a pure black). The white is provided by the paper i.e. no ink is laid down. The exact opposite of your monitor.

Getting the 'Profiles' right for all devices when achieved means your system is WSIWYG and your prints will mimic the screen very closely. This ultimately makes printing easy and can save a fortune in inks and paper. More importantly it means that all the little 'tweaks' you do in Photoshop for colour balance and tones will be accurately replicated by your printer.

There are a lot of sites covering this subject on the web heres a good starting point;-

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/color-management1.htm

and a very humorous explanation of colour management here;-

http://www.colorwiki.com/wiki/The_Color_of_Toast

Colour management can be a bit like a dog chasing it's tail, but getting your monitor to accurately represent colour is the first step and, if you havn't already done it, you would be better spending your money in a hardware calibration device, trying to use your eyes for calibration doesn't work.

Sorry for 'bending your ear'

Chris