that isn't a too bad price i guess. have fun with it when you get the book. the problem about the book is that i find the author some times forget that there are newbies to the whole PIC programming and basic robotics so some of his projects seem a little way advance. plus when i first got the book and read the first few chapters i was under the impression that the projects would be written for PICBasic Compilers along with the Pro Compilers. when i finally purchased PicBasic i couldn't compile his codes for the walking robot which were written for the pro versions. i was new then some 20 posts ago Strange thing was the earlier projects before the walking robot had both basic and pro version of codes.