Documenation for CS4

Hi all,
After a very long absence from this group, I would like to hear advice about purchasing documentation for InDesign CS4. (Windows shop--Windows XP)
After a multiple-year wait, our team finally got upgraded from CS2 to CS4. Over a year ago, anticipating we would get CS3, I bought David Blatner's "Real World InDesign CS3." I think very highly of Blatner.
Can you tell me if there are enough differences between InDesign CS3 and CS4 to warrant my buying (my company does not buy support for us) Blatner's same book for InDesign CS4?
Also, do any of you prefer another documentation source?
Thanks very much.
Lizbeth

I think the Real World InDesign book is a fantastic resource, although Sandee Cohen's Visual QuickStart Guide is probably better for beginners, as Peter suggested. However, if you don't want to buy any new books for CS4, you'll probably be fine using a combination of your Real World CS3 book, the Help system, and Google.com.
There are several new features in CS4, and some features -- such as Preflight and Hyperlinks -- have changed quite a bit, so you'll want to become familiar with those changes to avoid getting "bad" advice from your CS3 book. You can check out the "What's new" help topic to get an overview:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WSFE4C4DDD-967A-4cf0-845F-AB2B86FCC809a.html
By the way, I'm the guy who writes the Help topics for InDesign. The web version of Help includes links to videos, user comments, and links to related blog entries, book excerpts, and forum threads. And, when you search in web Help, you can include some of the best community sites in your search results -- essentially a customized Google.com search.

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