I'm excited to announce the final print release of *Solr in Action*, the newest Solr book by Manning publications covering through Solr 4.7 (the current version). The book is available for immediate purchase in print and ebook formats, and the *outline*, some *free chapters* as well as the *full source code are also available* at http://solrinaction.com.
I would love it if you would check the book out, and I would also appreciate your feedback on it, especially if you find the book to be a useful guide as you are working with Solr! Timothy Potter and I (Trey Grainger) worked tirelessly on the book for nearly 2 years to bring you a thorough (664 pg.) and fantastic example-driven guide to the best Solr has to offer. *Solr in Action* is intentionally designed to be a learning guide as opposed to a reference manual. It builds from an initial introduction to Solr all the way to advanced topics such as implementing a predictive search experience, writing your own Solr plugins for function queries and multilingual text analysis, using Solr for big data analytics, and even building your own Solr-based recommendation engine. The book uses fun real-world examples, including analyzing the text of tweets, searching and faceting on restaurants, grouping similar items in an ecommerce application, highlighting interesting keywords in UFO sighting reports, and even building a personalized job search experience. For a more detailed write-up about the book and it's contents, you can also visit the Solr homepage at https://lucene.apache.org/solr/books.html#solr-in-action. Thanks in advance for checking it out, and I really hope many of you find the book to be personally useful! All the best, Trey Grainger Co-author, *Solr in Action*Director of Engineering, Search & Analytics @CareerBuilder
