Have you heard about the Succinctly
Series? Syncfusion has produced a number of free e-Books on various subjects ranging
from source control to jQuery to HTTP. I highly recommend you pick up these
free books. You’ll have to register but it’s worth it. This is an unsolicited review.
So far I’ve read the Knockout.js Succintly, ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Websites Succinctly, PDF Succinctly and JavaScript Succinctly. They are great beginner books and very quick reads especially if you are beyond the basic level. They average around 60 pages per book with 150 pages being the biggest I’ve seen.
They seem to be rolling out a new book every few months. So far they have:
ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Websites Succinctly
Happy Coding!