Ice climbing guidebook recommendations?

Hello,
I am about (in one month) to take a three days course of ice falls climbing with a mountain guide. I am an easy rock climber (5.9 on sport routes) and mountaineer (easier stuff).

Although in those days I'll get plenty of training, I am quite a nerdy guy and I love to read a lot on every subject that interests me. So, I want to read a book before the course so to have something already running in my head.

The only ebook I could find, actually, is this:
amazon.it/Ice-Mixed-Climbin…

There are no reviews.
Does anybody has any recommendations about the subject? Is that book good? Or, there are others that may be worthy? I'd rather go with anything available as e-book, I really don't want to waste more trees (and spend more, and wait more).

Thanks all!

Thats a good book to read but you won't retain any of it. I bought that same book after I went ice climbing for the first time. I read it on the plane home. I reread it about two years later... it was like reading the book for the first time! I still recommend reading that book. Good times.

You could buy Freedom of the Hills too. There's a little more information in that one. Hehehe..

I hope you enjoy ice climbing.

I recommend it...

I think I have most of the instructional stuff including Lowe, Chouinard, March...Isaac...Twight...

Gadd's might be the best so far?

your local public or college/university library may have a copy of Chouinard's Climbing Ice. I imagine some here will find it "dated", as the author did not anticipate climbing leashless or doing figure-4's. But you won't be doing any of that in an intro course. Hopefully, you'll be learning about footwork, balance, moving efficiently, and so on; and it's precisely those topics that are expertly discussed in this book.

Also, the book isn't lacking for mojo-building content. The photos are fantastic and the author's chapter-opening vignettes are illuminating.

In my opinion, there is no better ice climbing primer than this text.

That "Buy now with one click" thing. Read your answers, got the book like five seconds afterwards.

Thanks!