It's probably something to do with the way I was brought up, but I find
myself unable to write in books, or fold the corners of pages - I just
feel that there is something terribly wrong with defacing a book - even
one that I've printed out and spiral bound.
Most of my books are still in pristine condition - although I have a
Delphi 3 book that's started to look a bit worn.
Alister Christie
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On 16/09/2011 11:02 a.m., Jeremy North wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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
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> 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]>
>> [mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Alister
Christie
>> Sent: Friday, 16 September 2011 9:26 a.m.
>> To: [email protected] <mailto:[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
>>
>>
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