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During the last weeks I read the book "Presentation Zen" from Garr Reynolds. With all the descriptions and those hundreds of examples, the book helped me a lot on understanding how to prepare for a presentation.

Following some of the principles from this book, I've changed my way of working on a presentation radically. Preparing a talk "the new way" is much cooler than with those old and ugly bullet lists.

Finally I held a presentation on Unit Testing during a conference with slides that did not contain any single bullet list, almost no text but some nice images. And hey, it worked out pretty well! I felt comfortable (besides beeing nervous as hell) - and the audience seemded to like the talk that much that they voted for me so that I won the best paper award at the end of the conference.

This book also changed my feeling when watching presentations from other persons. This week I was at a company's presentation about their services and stuff. C'mon - 10 entries in a bullet-list, some of them multi-line and that on one single slide. It's just a pain in the eyes...

Well, I can just recomment this book for everyone that has to prepare slides from time to time (and who hasn't to do that?)! It's worth every cent of it!