I suppose that's where you got personal trainers for... to really suit your needs. Chances are minimal you can obtain got the right-perfect-spot-on book for you, and finding one during your entire studies.
Chess books problem
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Do you all notice that the chess books on the market today are like many other books, neatly dressed and packaged in bright colors...very attractive indeed!
They are either very simple, designed for the beginner or very advanced in their explanations. Yes, there are some inbetweens but most of them are just not tailored to fit the needs of where you are. If you find a truth or a concept specific to match your style or suit your needs one has to dig deeply to pull out. Usually, there are a lot of stuff that is irrelevant to one's current stage, for the most part. I figure I can't lose, if one day I get to the other stages I can pull them out.
Most of them are annotated, not in a simple manner, but with variation lines in chess variation thrown in looking like greek. It takes at least 3/4 of an hour to an hour to really go through the games and figure them out.
The annotations usually depend on who's the annotator was. In other words, some plays are not annotated while some sections are. I guess the guy figures that the reader already knows those plays which are not annotated and therefore needs no focus. The sections needing no focus, I assume are obvious plays of exchanges, best move possible when no tactical or strategical move is possible. I'm not attempting to down chess books on the market. You may disagree with me but I think they can explain the stuff a lot better and not make them seem like college textbooks.