<p>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. <br>
Everyone is different I guess.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 16/09/2011 8:51 AM, "Alister Christie" <<a href="mailto:alister@salespartner.co.nz">alister@salespartner.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> I've been reading ebooks on my iPad 2 for some time now and found iBooks <br>
> to be really good for reading both PDFs and .epub files (which I usually <br>> get for $10 daily deals or half price on O'Reilly). The Safari reader <br>> is nowhere near as good, but still very usable. I don't think I could <br>
> handle reading a book on my laptop or desktop (I use to print the out <br>> before my iPad). The number of books in Safari is huge (13,500) and <br>> it's hard to know where to start, I'm currently watching "The Douglas <br>
> Crockford JavaScript Master Class" - which is pretty good (I've read his <br>> JavaScript the Good Parts previously) and reading "Clean Code" - mostly <br>> because I was so impressed with "The Clean Coder" which I think has been <br>
> discussed here previously.<br>> <br>> Alister Christie<br>> Computers for People<br>> Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266<br>> <a href="http://www.salespartner.co.nz">http://www.salespartner.co.nz</a><br>
> Follow us on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/salespartner">http://twitter.com/salespartner</a><br>> PO Box 13085<br>> Johnsonville<br>> Wellington<br>> <br>> <br>> On 16/09/2011 10:09 a.m., Laurence Bevan wrote:<br>
>> Hi Alister,<br>>><br>>> Our company has used Safari since almost its inception. We upgraded to a<br>>> full unlimited subscription about 3 years ago and still save thousands on<br>>> buying paper books. A single annual fee for access to thousands of technical<br>
>> books is a pretty great deal when any hard copy books remotely related to<br>>> development or IT seem to have several hundred dollar price tags these days.<br>>><br>>> The only thing I have found is having to get used to reading them online,<br>
>> although a Safari subscription entitles you to several download tokens per<br>>> month and most of the time I find I only want a book for one or two<br>>> chapters, and you can purchase additional tokens if needed.<br>
>><br>>> Regards,<br>>> Laurence Bevan<br>>> Master Business Systems Ltd<br>>><br>>><br>>> -----Original Message-----<br>>> From: <a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@listserver.123.net.nz">delphi-bounces@listserver.123.net.nz</a><br>
>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@listserver.123.net.nz">delphi-bounces@listserver.123.net.nz</a>] On Behalf Of Alister Christie<br>>> Sent: Friday, 16 September 2011 9:26 a.m.<br>>> To: <a href="mailto:delphi@delphi.org.nz">delphi@delphi.org.nz</a><br>
>> Subject: [DUG] O'Reilly have 50% off ebooks and videos<br>>><br>>> <a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/b2s-special.do">http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/b2s-special.do</a><br>>> Although I've given up and subscribed to Safari, obsessed as I am about<br>
>> collecting books (and sometimes reading them), I've decided that paying a<br>>> monthly tax is going to be cheaper.<br>>><br>>> Does anyone else use Safari (which has 30% off at the moment by the way)?<br>
>><br>>> --<br>>> Alister Christie<br>>> Computers for People<br>>> Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266<br>>> <a href="http://www.salespartner.co.nz">http://www.salespartner.co.nz</a><br>>> Follow us on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/salespartner">http://twitter.com/salespartner</a> PO Box 13085<br>
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