OT: Safari Books

[Carlos Macedo Gomes]

Seems you're getting a bunch of positive responses on Safari and I'm be
adding my voice to that positive chorus.  I have access to the full Safari
at work and a also limited version via my ACM (or maybe IEEE) membership and
I like the service. I'm pretty sure that if it didn't come to me as a
work/member benefit I would still pay for the service directly.
I still like physical books for obvious reasons but got used to using
electronic books during my recent time in graduate school.  The keyword
search functions across entire libraries are unbeatable especially for
somewhat esoteric topics.  It's also nice when colleagues also use the
service since you can hyperlink or share bookmarks to help explain your
position or question in more detail.

I also have Books24x7 (again via work and ACM/IEEE membership) and recommend
that system for a broader base of books from various publishers.  Books24x7
has books from various publishers covering different domains:
science/engineering, technology (software/hardware & high-tech/low-tech),
business, professional development, etc).  For a book junkie, the regular
emails w/ summary of new books and ability to (virtually) add an almost
endless stream of interesting books to your (virtual) bookshelf is very
gratifying :-).

ymmv,
C.G.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Mike Hoy <mhoy06 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have any of you ever signed up for Safari Books Online? They have a few
> titles I'd like to read and the price isn't bad for the Safari Bookshelf
> ($22.99). Just looking for any feedback negative or positive before I sign
> up. For example one book: Programming Python is way more in paper copy than
> the monthly fee on Safari. So that's a win win right there. But I was also
> wondering about things like bookmarks, so you can pick up where you left off
> from the day before.
>
> --
> Mike Hoy
>


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