I haven't paid a hundred dollars for a book for years. I hated reading on the ipad. Recently bought some html 5 books from amazon. Didn't pay more than 25 each and most under 20. Shopping is pretty good as well. I speak in aud dollars. I'd rather have something to hold and write on. Especially for tech books. Everyone is different I guess. On 16/09/2011 8:51 AM, "Alister Christie" <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been reading ebooks on my iPad 2 for some time now and found iBooks > to be really good for reading both PDFs and .epub files (which I usually > get for $10 daily deals or half price on O'Reilly). The Safari reader > is nowhere near as good, but still very usable. I don't think I could > handle reading a book on my laptop or desktop (I use to print the out > before my iPad). The number of books in Safari is huge (13,500) and > it's hard to know where to start, I'm currently watching "The Douglas > Crockford JavaScript Master Class" - which is pretty good (I've read his > JavaScript the Good Parts previously) and reading "Clean Code" - mostly > because I was so impressed with "The Clean Coder" which I think has been > discussed here previously. > > Alister Christie > Computers for People > Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 > http://www.salespartner.co.nz > Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/salespartner > PO Box 13085 > Johnsonville > Wellington > > > On 16/09/2011 10:09 a.m., Laurence Bevan wrote: >> Hi Alister, >> >> Our company has used Safari since almost its inception. We upgraded to a >> full unlimited subscription about 3 years ago and still save thousands on >> buying paper books. A single annual fee for access to thousands of technical >> books is a pretty great deal when any hard copy books remotely related to >> development or IT seem to have several hundred dollar price tags these days. >> >> The only thing I have found is having to get used to reading them online, >> although a Safari subscription entitles you to several download tokens per >> month and most of the time I find I only want a book for one or two >> chapters, and you can purchase additional tokens if needed. >> >> Regards, >> Laurence Bevan >> Master Business Systems Ltd >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alister Christie >> Sent: Friday, 16 September 2011 9:26 a.m. >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [DUG] O'Reilly have 50% off ebooks and videos >> >> http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/b2s-special.do >> Although I've given up and subscribed to Safari, obsessed as I am about >> collecting books (and sometimes reading them), I've decided that paying a >> monthly tax is going to be cheaper. >> >> Does anyone else use Safari (which has 30% off at the moment by the way)? >> >> -- >> Alister Christie >> Computers for People >> Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 >> http://www.salespartner.co.nz >> Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/salespartner PO Box 13085 >> Johnsonville Wellington >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >> Post: [email protected] >> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >> Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with >> Subject: unsubscribe >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >> Post: [email protected] >> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >> Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe
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