For some time now I've had a page in the WSS FAQ sites with links to Chapters from v3 SharePoint books (and ones useful for SharePoint admins/developers) that have been made available free on-line by the publishers.

However this past week I have extended it dramatically from 5 to 21 chapters by searching publishers' sites.

You'll find all 21 links here

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/VII%20Book%20Extracts.aspx

There is one snag. In most cases the publishers let you have a free look at Chapter One. Most of these are SharePoint books (rather than books related to SharePoint) and thus almost every free chapter is "An Introduction to SharePoint" in various shapes, forms and lengths.

I'm a bit worried (perhaps not the right word) about this because I wrote the first chapter in the MVP's SharePoint book (Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs) out in mid August and available for Pre-Order here

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470168358/heme0f

The reason I'm worried (apart from the chance using this chapter will give for thousands of people to find the mistakes that are no doubt there - hopefully though not any biggies) is that my chapter is not representative of the book. The rest of the book IS for the target audience of SharePoint Pros looking to that little extra from this (apart from me) illustrative set of MVPs, whereas mine is a chapter designed to get people with no pre-knowledge quickly up to speed with the main aspects of WSS v3 (and thus also with the underlying aspects of MOSS 2007) so that they can understand the rest of the book.

(and to those who wonder why a book with that title needs an Introduction chapter for people who haven't used a SharePoint product before, has your boss never turned up unexpectably at your office/cubicle/desk clutching a book he's bought and saying "I want you to do X - here's a book to help you".?)

More than one of mine has  ...