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

[Jeremy North]

Do you still have the plastic wrapper on your couch to protect it?

It's like when you get a new car. You're all careful until you get that
first scratch and then realise, it is just a car.
:)


On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Alister Christie <
alister at salespartner.co.nz> wrote:

>  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
> Computers for People
> Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266http://www.salespartner.co.nz
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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" <alister at salespartner.co.nz>
> 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: delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz
> >> [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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