For those of you who are new to this as I am, I have just purchased a book from Amazon called ‘DJI MINI 4 PRO The practice manual’ by Massimiliano Zeuli. ISBN IS 9798863475219. Superbly written and illustrated and far more useful than the DJI PDF manual. I’ve learnt more in the first 35 pages than a couple of flights in the park already.
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What does it offer that the million and one youtube tutorials does not
Tight Yorkshire man asking
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A warm comforting cup of (insert choice) indoors. Pictures, written words and diagrams. The ability to carry it with you indoors and outdoors without needing WiFi, phone signal, phone/tablet. You can pick it up, fold the corners of pages you like, highlight important bits. There’s no adverts or caching data. And all of the answers are in your hand. You don’t need to pause and rewind. You can just stare at the writing and pictures and reread until it’s finally sunk in.
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Oh man this has so made my day - thanks for posting this so eloquently - man we have all so forgotten the wonders of a book.
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/DJI-Mini-Pro-Practice-Version/dp/B0CKLZ6GSZ/
What happens to a book with all the firmware updates that DJI put out every month that adds new features or changes existing things?
A book would be out of date before it’s even hit the shelves 
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I love a book, but have been a kindle convert for about 10 years.
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The book covers the basic of the drone and remote control. It’s definitely for beginners like me. For example waypoint planning and follow me follow a target routines are covered. I’d been playing with the controller for a few sessions and didn’t realise that the two antennas could be pointed downward and forward as well as just up! Once you’ve mastered those basics anything new that’s added by software within the drone/controller is going to be a lot easier to understand. Plus software updates tend to tell you what they are doing.
Ordinarily, yes, but you’ve yet to experience DJI “release notes” 
Yes, very true 
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I do have Kindle but find that Kindle books nowadays cost as much as a hard copy book. You can’t pass on a kindle book but you can paper.
You’re not looking in the right place 
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I also should have said that unlike YouTube books don’t start with ‘wassup…’, chapters don’t start with ‘So…’ and every 5th word isn’t ’Like….’
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Perhaps YouTube is your calling Robbo
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too right - I bought the Canon G5x II camera and got a 338 page manual printed - excellent reference. Online content is accessible but isn’t as easily digested as ‘good old written words’!!
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With a book, you’d know enough about the drones capabilities to actually use them to the fullest extent vs a bunch of banal firmware updates advising you of enhanced functionality you probably never knew existed in first place!!! 
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Brilliant answer!
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One of a Nation’s Greatest Editors once said in the early 20th Century that “One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words…”
I get the book thing, but I had a Photoshop for Dummies book for xmas, (cus I cant retain sh*t, nowadays) just a few years back and it’s already way out-of-date. So if the above quote is true, what’s an hour or so actually seeing the knowledge and skills demonstrated worth?
The most useful YouTube video I watched was how to fly smoothly, even with default DJI settings. It tranformed my flying after a 10 min watch!
Anyway, whatever, your experience level is welcome to a great hobby, you’ll love it. 
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Setting up ‘expo’ is key to smooth flying as are the ‘braking’ functions. Having experimented with these, I’ve found a short ‘pause-fly-pause’ whilst recording results in far less video cutting afterwards (to find the smooth bits) and the whole shot looks way more pro…
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For me I think it’s an age thing. It seems that I take stuff in if I can read and re-read rather than watching YouTube stuff.
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I’m about to hit 66, so know what you mean. I save the useful YT vids to my private YT Playlists, by subject, ie Drones, Davinci Resolve (started using 10 months ago), Photoshop, Crossdressing, oops shouldn’t have mentioned that one!
I can then replay, pause, and carry on playing while I’m editing etc.
Oh, the cross dressing thing was a joke so no Private messaging… pretty please!
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If the book knows what the ‘Known issues’ fixed on each software update are it may be worth it.
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