OT: Safari Books

[Ryan Rix]

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.
>
>
I got a 45 day trial for it when I purchased a sixty dollar book from
Borders.

Login cookie didn't stick, no way to bookmark, no way to download a local
copy...

I spent 60$ on a programming book with no static html online or pdf version,
that kind of torqued me off. Even more when I suddenly lost access to it
after a month and a half.

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Thanks and best regards,
Ryan Rix
TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog
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Jasmine Bowden - Class of 2009, Marc Rasmussen - Class of 2008, Erica
Sheffey - Class of 2009, Rest in peace.
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