[DUG] O'Reilly have 50% off ebooks and videos

[Alister Christie]

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
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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-----
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> [mailto:delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of Alister Christie
> Sent: Friday, 16 September 2011 9:26 a.m.
> To: delphi at delphi.org.nz
> 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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