> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 11:40 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Do you buy pirated books
>
> There was a thread on CF-Talk the other week about the Java for CF
> programmers book. Someone wanted to buy a copy and it's out of print.
> Someone else mentioned a digital file of it. As someone who keeps an eye
> on pirated materials, I've seen just about every tech book out there in
> .cfm or .pdf format.
> Here's the question: If you have a book in digital format, do you later go
> out and buy a 'real' copy of it?
Only if turns out to be useful.
Personally I collect much more than I end up using/reading (the only real
case for broadband making piracy more rampant... but less effective).
But for tech books I prefer paper to begin with (to have the book open on
the desk for reference) and no e-book format is very good at that. At the
same time however tech books tend to be insanely bloated in both size and
price - I've neither the physical room for all that paper in my apartment
nor the metaphorical room in my wallet to pay $80 (sometimes annually) for
an up-to-date paper copy.
So when it comes down to it there are some books I tend to always buy
("JavaScript: The Definitive Guide" from O'Reilly comes to mind) and use
nearly constantly. Others (for example Ben Forta's CF WACK - as good as it
is) tends to cover material that I'll never review again so I just don't buy
them.
Then again I don't pirate them either - they're just not that useful to me
at all.
To generalize even more I've essentially given up on non-reference tech
books.
Jim Davis
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