Kohei Nozaki's blog 

The book seems little obsolete because it was published on 2009 and intended to use with version 4.0. but most part of the book makes sense to me because major features of Roller are unchanged till current version 5.1.1.

A instruction about weblog itself is interested and fun to read. the book has many step-by-step instruction about its function and it's very easy to read. especially, instruction of creating a new template from scratch was good for me. some contents are obsoleted surely but I can recommend this book for beginners of Roller.

But maybe you should read the official documents first than buy this book. official document can be obtained from here as PDF or ODT.

NOTE: an additional Section 9, which is not included the book and the book claims that it can be downloaded via packtpub.com but the URL returns 404 now. the support desk send me PDF after I sent an email to ask how can I get section 9. they said the link got updated after renewal of their web site. it needs to add /sites/default/ as prefix of the path now.