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Mircea Badut is a Romanian technical literature writer, specialized in informatics (IT), computer aided design (CAD) and geographical information systems (GIS). (He wrote eleven books on this domains.)

He invented an original book concept, named „...in three snaps” (“...în trei timpi” in Romanian language). (In a book made under this concept, every topic is presented three times, with minimum redundancy, and distinctively marked near the edge of paper. The recommended scenario to read a such book – in order to learn the subject from scratch – presume a three times reading through the book: once at "Level 1", then at "Level 2", and finally on "Level 3".) First book carrying this genuine concept was „The Computer in three snaps” (2001), at the Polirom Publishing House (http://www.polirom.ro/), in Romania, and the second was „The AutoCAD in three snaps”, at the same publishing house. In spite of the success on the Romanian market (both book were republished), the concept was not as successful as the „... for dummies” book series launched in 1991 in USA.

He wrote another series of successful books at the Albastra Publishing House (http://www.albastra.ro/) – a publishing house renown as being one of the very few in world using a blue tinted ink for book printing (in Romanian language, “albastra” means blue).

Mircea Badut has also written – starting with 1996 – over 200 articles on IT, database, CAD, GIS, for Romanian and foreign magazines.