Beowulf wrote:
Kelby has many more than five books published. If you mean the digest sized books for digital photographers, numbered 1-4 and then a fifth unnumbered one, you can pick any one up in any sequence to read. They are all very good, some have heavier leanings toward subjects like studio photography, sports photography, etc., but all are quite informative on many aspects of the subject. I especially like the back-of-the-book series of "recipes" for making certain types of shots.
I like Scott's books (except for his weak attempts at humor -- dang, he's worse than me!!) for their concise summaries of key concepts. Like Beowulf, I especially like that you can read virtually any topic "stand-alone" & in any sequence, and still get a lot from it. He gives you the usual doctrinaire advice -- for example, "always use a tripod" -- then later admits you need to break those textbook rules from time to time. I like his approach
that I bought the entire Digital Photography Parts 1-4 for a talented, young photographer in Rio de Janeiro to use as the basis for a collaborative project in Brasil.