19 July 2005 Glenn English wrote: > > http://www.nostarch.com/frameset.php?startat=debian
> Everything I've seen from No Starch is paperback. My European Debian Yes you're right, nearly all books from US seems to be paperback, even such excellent books like Stroustrups Programming in C++ (at least when I bought the German version of it, more than 10 years ago which is hardback from a German publisher). > book is a hardback, and it has a very interesting characteristic: from > the first page, it lies flat on the desk when open. None of my other > computer books can claim that. Not even the hardbacks from Cisco Press. I have bought it now in a German book shop myself really great. Another nice feature, there is a thread bound into it, which serves as a bookmark which can't go lost :-) > I was very impressed when I saw that. To me, not having to use a brick > to keep a book open is worth the struggle with a German website and the > exorbitant shipping. For one I foresee using a lot, anyway. Agree. Peter -- peter_sulzer doesn't like spam and this is my domain: t-online.de