Photography books

I'm going to buy one photography book and I have two on my mind:
The New Manual of Photography by John Hedgecoe
The digital photography by Scott Kelby

I have loaned Hedgecoe's book but our library has not Kelby's one, so which one do you prefer better?

Kelby's writing style doesn't suit everyone. It is very joky and chatty. I knew his style from his Photoshop Elements books, and have all three of his digital photography books. I like them, but they are very Canikon based books which can get annoying.

I'm not familiar with the Hedgecoe book.

I have several of Scott Kelby books and they seem fairly easy to follow. I have also watched some of this problems on his web site.

Sandy

Thanks folks

I desided to order a Finnish translation of Hedgecoe's "The New Manual of Photography".