I adore my kindle (might get a paperwhite for christmas), but I find it not nearly good enough for most code books. Don't get me wrong, I still buy them for it, as it's cheaper and more convenient to carry around, but I find code examples wrapped too much, and the lack of colour is a real disadvantage, too. Technical books that I really need to study & grok, I buy the paper copies, sometimes after confirming that the investment will be worth it on the kindle (although not often -- that would be silly).
On 14 September 2013 17:23, Ash Moran <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 14 Sep 2013, at 11:58, Paul Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Nearly all tech books make perfect sense on Kindle, I think. Being able > to dive into any one of a dozen classic programming texts wherever I am - a > meeting, an away day, on my sofa, on the train, whatever - without having > to carry those dozen 300+ pp. said books everywhere is a major advantage. > > I've found myself not needing / wanting to do that any more, for whatever > reason. Mind you I try to keep travelling to an absolute minimum. > > > That said, I have had a design in mind for some 4-5 years - and a plan > to self-publish - books based on the official documentation of Ruby and > popular frameworks like Rails that would only make sense in paper form and > would be of extremely high-quality and of high utility to most programmers > in their daily work. > > > > Spiral-bound (so it sits flat on a desk next to a keyboard), tab > indexed, and with the content itself being able to in a single instance > show the most important information about a piece of functionality - and > how it evolved over versions/time - I think if done well from a design > perspective would be useful. > > Programming Ruby is one of the few books I've found invaluable as a desk > reference in the past - spiral bound may have been even better. > > The idea I keep having is to turn all the core and stdlib docs into > flashcards so I can memorise the bits of the APIs I keep forgetting. > (Flashcards work well for boring factual knowledge that doesn't involve > much actual thought, such as GCSE syllabuses.) I don't know if anyone's > already done this (doesn't look so), I'm kinda hoping it'd be a fairly > simple process to scrape the documentation though. > > Ash > > -- > http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashmoran > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
