Is there a really good book on Aperture?

Could anyone recommend a good book on Aperture with lots of practical tips? Thanks

I purchased Aperture only about two weeks ago, my main purpose being to compose and have a book printed by Apple. As well as to make sharing albums with family and friends easier.
I was impressed with the ease with which I could enhance about 60 photographs with very good results. I do indispensable, limited enhancements to originals and found this a lot easier to perform (and thus much less time consuming) with Aperture than with Lightroom (which I have been underusing for quite a while) or, for that matter, with Photoshop CS6 (which I have been underusing to considerably larger extent). I find the Lightroom user interface crammed (despite the fact that mine is a 27” screen) - Aperture is just considerably cleaner and more intuitive to use.
Having said this, I am finding that giving the book the shape I would like* is not showing that obvious. Scoppettuolo’s book is on its way, trust it should help.
The outlook for Aperture does not look bright, I know, with Apple having decided - as I understand it - to discontinue development on it. This looks like a great pity to me!
* which is no more than that of a rather simple album, with a simple cover and title, no photo on the back cover and all photos placed in similar way on light grey pages (to show a similar frame on each page, meant to be quite simply that running through from the edge of the photo to that of the page)

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