On 13/12/13 Bill Strosberg said:
> Now I sound like an elderly curmudgeon.
Pretty much. :)
Don't get me wrong, I love books. But, consider this:
- ebooks from O'Reilly are available in any format I care about
- epub is just zipped html and css, it doesn't get any more portable
- books on co
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From: Rick
Date: Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] books
To: Strake
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Strake wrote:
> Bill Strosberg wrote:
> > I hate Java
>
I like books, I just don't buy them much any more, I'm not arguing that
Bill Strosberg wrote:
> Although the young folks will take exception to this,
Yes, the young folks, so reliably uniform in opinion. I have friends
of about my age [21 years] who much prefer dead trees.
> eBooks are a poor, flawed approximation of the dead tree versions,
Dead tree books and eBoo
All:
I've been at this so long that eBooks weren't even a gleam in Tim
O'Reilly's eye when I started. I have a pretty complete "zoo" of
O'Reilly books on my office shelves. I like dead trees for reference.
They run forever without being plugged in. They are available without
connection to
