I have all of the books mentioned in this thread and find multiple explanations helpful sometimes.
I agree with the above thoughts although I would add the Hanson books to the too advanced for a early stage beginner list. Both Hanson and Miller assume you know a fair number of chords and can change between them. When you are to decide if you want to learn fingerpicking or flatpicking one of them would be the best place to start.
I found Justinguitar the most useful since I didn't have an instructor to provide a visual example. Justin runs his site on the honor system and requests that those who can buy something to help with the cost of the site. I have both his basic course book and his beginner songbook. The songs in it are ones you've heard and they use skills learned up to that point in his course. Most other books don't do that since the cost of using copyrighted songs is so high. They use songs that are old enough to be out of copyright or that the author wrote.
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