What's the difference?
Short answer:

Large Print.

16 pages

   Both are 8.5" x 11"
spiral-bound.
Either can be laminated.

The Card Collection
has phone-book
dense print.

In fact, it uses the
same font as the
phone books, 6-
point Bell Centennial

The Card Collection
minimizes flipping
pages and is a good
choice if your eyes
can handle fine print.

In the
Browser
Book, the
HTML and
CSS pages
have 50%
larger print

JavaScript
pages
have 30%
larger print

So, what's the point
of two books?
There's a tradeoff.
   

+
+
_______

The Browser Book
is easier to read,
and a little better
integrated, with
actual page
numbers.

And on the back
is a visual table of
contents and a
combined legend.

In the
Browser Book
each topic has a
spread – a pair
of facing pages.
(See how CSS is
on pages 6 - 7?
Closeups below...)

Any difference in content?
Just one:

page 3

The Card
Collection has
a big annotated
HTML / CSS
example page.

HTML / CSS
Example Chart

Otherwise
the content is identical and up-to-date
in both the Card Collection and Browser Book

   
   
Same page size?
Yes, they're both 8.5" by 11".
Here's how the layout differs...

The first two pages are the identical:

page 1

Color Card

page 2

Font Card

(top of page 5)

Both the Card Collection
and the Browser Book show
Special Characters

page 4

and
XHTML Tags

page 5

and
CSS Styles

Plus little sections on SSI, URL's
and XML's requirements for XHTML

They both cover
JavaScript

page 9

and
DOM

page 10

and
Regular Expressions

The legend and
table of contents
and index are on
the back cover.

   
Bottom line?
So glad you asked...

Browser Book

More about lamination...