Yes, once I got hooked onto the Dresden tv series and found it suddenly cancelled, I needed to fill that void and picked up the novels. 

There are indeed differences between the book and tv formats.  However, there are still similiarities which makes it easy to relate to them.  For example, I personally prefer the tv Bob and tv Harry and see them in my mind's eye when I'm reading the Dresden books.  Terrance Mann gave Bob a great personality and I enjoyed it.  Paul Blackthorne gave Harry a presence that essentially brought him to life onscreen. 

I agree that the it is a bit of a mental whiplash going back and forth between the two different formats due to the changes.  For the most part, they are subtle and I have learned to accept them with grace.  I'll admit that it took awhile to get used to the changes but I'm happy with them. 

You know, it's days like this that I wish I had a ton of money laying around so that I could help shows like The Dresden Files continue into a long running series.  I would have loved to donate it to the producers to keep it going.   

It's seems incredibly unfair that Stargate SG-1 ran for so long and yet Dresden was axed so abruptly without giving anyone a chance to fully enjoy it.  Even Dead Zone is still running even though they had to move to a different network later on (they found a way to keep going which is fantastic). 

Heck, I never even saw the show until way after Christmas, it should have been on the air in September like all of the other shows that premiere at that time. 

The Dresden Files was by far one of the best series on television and it deserved to have had a chance to gain a much stronger fan base like Bones.  We really should have been blessed with 20 episodes rather than a measly 12, it didn't give us a chance to get become intimately familiar with it.

I'm keeping my fingers (and my toes) crossed for possible feature films or DVD movies of The Dresden Files.  I'm giddy as a school kid just thinking about it....