4 Dec
2006
4 Dec
'06
10:07 p.m.
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Zane H. Healy wrote:
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