"Thinking With Type" looked at first glance to be a combination of reference and history, so I flipped through it to see how I would approach it.

I landed on a page with the heading "Ignoring the rules of punctuation leads to humiliation and despair" with abrasive tidbits such as: "The purpose of prime marks, or hatch marks, is to indicate inches and feet. Their use to mark quotations is a common blight across the typographic landscape.... Incorrectly used prime marks must be routed out and destroyed."

I don't have time for this attitude.

I rarely give out one-star reviews, as they are books I wouldn't have finished. Rating DNF books goes against my principles. What if it got better?

In this case, skimming the book actually told me that it wasn't worth reading at all; it is the rare exception to my rule.