On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:38:40 +1200 Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:05, you wrote: > > Hi > > As new citizen of Christcurch I was looking for programming, and > > tech-stuff books in the varies bookstore I happened to sumbeleupon. > > Little -> none books did I find. Is there an special bookstore (Not > > the XX-rated) in Christchurch that I have not found, or are you all > > ordering on line? > > I have found the library to be a good source of books like this. They have > a lot of O'Reilly books and others (and a really good on-line catalogue to > find them). Buying books is a different matter- they're really expensive. > You can find a reasonable selection at Borders in Riccarton, but I usually > buy from Amazon.com. > > Check out pricenoia.com to compare the price of a particular book from all > Amazon stores including conversion to local currency and shipping. > > Andrew Personally, I'll buy from anywhere apart from amazon. I refuse to support the inventors of software patents, and were the first to sell on mailing list as well. I use borders, or research online. Steve
