After reading some recommendations I download a sample of this book.
I have the 3rd edition, purchased in autumn 2020 as an e-book; this edition seems to have been launched after Sep 2019 and has copyright restraints dated May 2020.
@MikeyBikey may I ask what edition your sample is coming from?
It is quite an enjoyable read but I am now at 1996.
Is that the year 1996 or the digital location?
This was the first book that I purchased after my diagnosis and I found it very informative. I used it as my instruction manual for carb counting and found that helpful to me. I enjoyed the style of his writing, even the slightly cheesy humour and I appreciated that the vast majority of his numerical examples provided European units as well as the US units. As a newbie I found a huge amount being explained, perhaps (as a newbie) too much, but that's probably true for everything.
The author has now got a pump and I am wondering if the book is really for people with pumps. In a lot of posts I read about people taking an additional 1/1.5/2/etc. units which I suspect is a pump tweak. On MDI I might add or take away a few units based on last BG, physical activity, upcoming meal I would never inject such a trivial amount.
I wasn't then remotely interested in pumping, so I skipped pumping content and Hybrid Closed Loops (HCL); so no idea if that technology is fully up to date. It's probably impossible to keep abreast of anyway.
You asked "So is the book relevant for me?"
Given your background and existing experience that's a tricky, rhetorical, question. Your observation about pump tweaks and injecting trivial amounts reflects your existing knowledge.
This book was relevant for me as my first reference text, beyond the bland and conservative material that the NHS generically provides. I'd read a lot from Google searches but found contradictions and ambiguities, so was feeling increasingly uncomfortable about internet searches. Curiously, interestingly (?), I hadn't found this site then; an old review here of this book might have dissuaded me from purchasing - which would have been a shame. I have more recently bought a paperback copy of Ragnar Hanas book on T1 diabetes and concluded not so much relevance to me now, given my pre-existing knowledge after 2+ years of trying to glean D info; perhaps that is always going to be the case: only deep technical research papers are providing new insights for me into D and I rarely stumble into these.
That doesn't mean that the general exchange of experiences, tips and tricks from this forum aren't truly invaluable; I get a great deal of useful snippets from here.
During 2019 into 2020 I had convinced myself that e-books were best for me, but I am finding reference books a little more difficult to 'dip into' for a refresh on something I recall reading about originally. Digital searches for key words or phrases are technically accurate but can bring dozens of text markers for where that key word or phrase has occurred and difficult to determine which marker is best suited to answer my search; progressing sysyematically through those markers is deceptively unfriendly - needing a clear memory of where you havevgot to in that systematic follow up! I'd like to see a paper copy and compare how easy it is to search in the index and text for something.
If we get enough rain and so enforced respite from essential gardening, I'll have another proper look at my e-book.
