4 Dec
2006
4 Dec
'06
10:55 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tothwolf" <tothwolf at concentric.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: library book sales
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Do you see many older engineering books from the 1930's? I always found
those interesting. Haven't been to a library booksale for ages, they usually
just sell books donated to them don't they or do they sell things from their
shelves?
I collect military history books as well as older computer ones, just don't
have much space for more books at the moment.
No, the lack of "good" books is because
they are all now those
"content-free Mac, Windows, and *UNIX* books" with very few exceptions.
Thanks to the popularity of Linux you really need to add Unix to the
"content-free" catagory. Though most O'Reilly books are still worth
picking up, recently I've gotten a lot of good use out of a couple
previous version Web related O'Reilly books I picked up earlier in the
year at a Library sale (I just happened to have taken a day of vacation
and we ran into that sale on accident).
I often look for O'Reilly books while at the booksales. Wiley and Addison
Wesley are also good to look for. I have a few local 'secret' sources for
O'Reilly and other books which I won't divulge, mainly because they will
sell me the overstock/remainder books for $1-3/each, so once or twice a
year, I get to load up a shopping cart with good books :)
-Toth