The Milling Machine for Home Machinists (Fox Chapel Publishing) Over 150 Color Photos & Diagrams; Learn How to Successfully Choose, Install, & Operate a Milling Machine in Your Home Workshop

This is a great book to get if you are thinking of getting into machining either as a hobby or even as a career as it has loads of informative photos as well as descriptions regarding the limitations of certain machines. Good to reference as well as there are special items that one forgets about because they are not used daily.

Complete beginner manual

With few exceptions the author does not assume prior knowledge. When he does he refers to the source and chapter to gain the potential lack of knowledge. The use of pictures and diagrams also enhanced understanding for those of us that depend on visual reference. It is a good source for the amateur that has a craftsman bent.

Read this and be smart re; small milling or combo machines

It is a book for the home machinist; just as the title states. Fortunately, I did not buy a mill before having a chance to read this book, which is the target audience. It guided me through some of the ins and outs of having various size machines before making a purchase. The best part would probably be the tooling recommendations. This will help quite a few decide what is necessary instead of what is convenient and and in some cases what tooling materials to avoid depending on what machine capabilities you have. I would recommend this to anyone from a total noob *using Google-fu to fill in the blanks; to an intermediate home machinists. Professionals might find some of the appendix helpful for tool geometries but any good machinist handbook will already contain this content.Good read. Mostly to the point. Nice size (especially for light reading while traveling), well printed and very well illustrated.

Does not claim to be for beginners or machinists with limited experience but seems to assume a fair bit of knowledge/experience on the part of the reader. I find a lot of things to not be clear-cut. Probably better off watching videos online.

Great reading

This book does its best to cover every aspect of using the milling machine that might be faced by the novice machinist; whether hobbyist or budding professional and would be a good first read for someone thinking about purchasing a mill but not sure about the size machine to select.. It is certainly worth the price.