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Surely a book on playing by ear is an oxymoron?
If you find a decent book on the subject then I would be interested in it too, but I suspect you won't without having to work through the more classical/jazz approach first
The best piece of music for learning by ear is Do-Re-Mi from The Sound of Music. Just put it on Youtube/etc and find the notes. It is brilliantly written, the intervals are simple and then get more interesting and if you're not tone deaf, you'll be off very quickly.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
In theory it should be easier on piano because it's all laid out in a line. The smaller intervals aren't so bad, but I find it harder to instantly see the larger intervals on piano. I try to look at the black and white notes chromatically and think in terms of intervals. But, for example, I instantly know what a fifth looks like in terms of the shape on guitar, but it's hard to instantly see a fifth in all keys on piano.
I think it's probably more about picking out things by ear and developing interval visualisation for piano than learning from a book, but I'm still trying to get my head around it myself.
The middle ground is the Linnstrument (hardware) or the Geo Synth (iPad software).
I'm a "whatever works" keyboard player. I'm never going to play classical piano pieces properly, and I don't mind.