----- Original Message ----- > I think the most amazing thing about it is how useful most of the > information still is. How many 18 year old technical books still have > useful information that pertains to what you do on a day to day > basis? > Having just cleaned out most of my library, I can tell you that the > number is vanishingly small. >
I've been thinking of cleaning out my library.... Especially since a while back I took advantage of the deal to get ebook versions of most of my O'Reilly books that I've registered as owning. I use the ebook versions almost as often as I use the paper versions currently, but the ebook version is easier to carry between home and work and doesn't clutter my home as bad. Especially since two of my bookcases didn't make it in my last move....(7+ years ago) Which probably says I don't really need the books that are still in boxes. Wonder if O'Reilly requires that I continue to own the book? Coming back from LISA I had a stack of their books that I won at several BoFs....which ended up costing me an extra $100 to bring home (though I got all my travel expenses, including this, reimbursed...) If I had thought of it, I should've registered them at LISA and purchased the eBook version and then abandoned them at the airport to avoid the overweight charge. I'm sure the transaction would've been safe to do over the open wireless there.... > BTW, as an aside, Amazon buys back books that you may not have a use > for > any more, and I was shocked that some of them were purchased back for > nearly what I paid for them originally. Amazon is an intermediary for > the used book stores that will be selling them, and it was an > excellent > experience. > I may have to try them out some day....wonder if there's a problem if I do this with O'Reilly books. OTOH, if I'm really going blind....I might not need my current library at all. -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
