This book compiles the material that is available in the "For Newcomers" section of the SCA website into printed form. Members of the SCA fellowship are invited to comment on the material, particularly on whether they believe that a printed form of the website would be useful as a reference for SCA members. At this point, this material is relatively unedited, and we know that there are some typos and other editorial problems to fix. The SCA International Service Organization (ISO) has not yet (as of January 2006) authorized the book form of this material to circulate as draft literature, so while you are welcome to read it and comment, we would appreciate it if you don't circulate it. Please send comments to the SCA Electronic Communication Coordinator at scaecc@sca-recovery.org. The link opens the book itself, which is stored as an Adobe pdf file--you will need to have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader loaded onto your computer to open the file properly. If you wish to read online, set your Adobe Reader view to "Continuous, facing" to get pages that look as they would in book form.