On 27/08/2009, at 11:29 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote:
Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Philippe Bruhat
(BooK) wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:21:24PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
Then again, I generally swear off paper books for a while
whenever I've
just moved house and my
On 28 Aug 2009, at 08:33, Billy Abbott wrote:
I'm worried that I seem to be turning into a Sony evangelist, but
I'd definitely give their Readers a look. I had a play with a Kindle
1 and it was a nasty thing in comparison to the PRS-505 - plasticky
and overengineered. The new Kindles are mea
Paul Makepeace wrote
The Kindle is one amazing piece of kit; I for one can't wait for it to
appear here. And yeah, I don't give a flying f- about Amazon tracking
my reading habits or accidentally deleting titles.
I'm worried that I seem to be turning into a Sony evangelist, but I'd
definite
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 08:03:32AM +0100, James Laver wrote:
> That said, someone hacked the kindle so you could put non-amazon books
> on it. It involves DRMing regular ebooks.
>
> http://igorsk.blogspot.com/2007/12/mobipocket-books-on-kindle.html
Jesse hacked his kindle and got all sorts of
On 28 Aug 2009, at 00:48, Paul Makepeace wrote:
The Kindle is one amazing piece of kit; I for one can't wait for it to
appear here. And yeah, I don't give a flying f- about Amazon tracking
my reading habits or accidentally deleting titles.
How about limits on the number of times you can downloa
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Kieren Diment wrote:
>
> On 28/08/2009, at 9:48 AM, Paul Makepeace wrote:
>
>> most importantly that will allow me to read it a hell
>> of a lot faster than paper.
>
> How does a decent ereader make reading speed quicker?
I don't know but it does, for me. I can pr
On 28/08/2009, at 9:48 AM, Paul Makepeace wrote:
most importantly that will allow me to read it a hell
of a lot faster than paper.
How does a decent ereader make reading speed quicker?
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Robert Shiels wrote:
>
> Paul Makepeace wrote:
>
>>
>> Paul, can read ebooks way faster than paper ones & searchable...
>>
>>
> Maybe this is a desirable feature for technical books. But for novels, or
> coffeetable type books, and other less work related volumes
Peter Corlett wrote:
On 25 Aug 2009, at 16:43, David Cantrell wrote:
The downside of ebooks is that they're a bit hard to read on the throne,
and generally come in awkward formats, just to make them even less
useful. Is there an ebook reader out yet that doesn't suck?
I swear by my Sony PRS-5
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:17:10AM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote:
>
> [2] And being the author of a non-free book, I do feel rather conflicted
> about seeing my work for free download on the 'net, but I'm confident in
> the honesty of people who are a. less skint than me, and b. don't have
> the sa
On 28/08/2009, at 12:05 AM, Robert Shiels wrote:
Paul Makepeace wrote:
Paul, can read ebooks way faster than paper ones & searchable...
Maybe this is a desirable feature for technical books. But for
novels, or coffeetable type books, and other less work related
volumes you're losing a lot
Paul Makepeace wrote:
Paul, can read ebooks way faster than paper ones & searchable...
Maybe this is a desirable feature for technical books. But for novels,
or coffeetable type books, and other less work related volumes you're
losing a lot of the joy of reading. Paper books will be around
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:58:23PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> For exactly these reasons and so many others: ebooks ftw. I'd be
> delighted if/when they become the norm and thanks for O'Reilly for
> doing this.
>
> Paul, can read ebooks way faster than paper ones & searchable...
E-books have
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:21:24PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
> Perhaps you should institute a policy that if a book isn't reviewed
> within a month, it should be handed back for somebody else to have a
> crack at it?
That relies on people bothering to bring books back to the next social.
-
Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Philippe Bruhat
(BooK) wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:21:24PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
Then again, I generally swear off paper books for a while whenever I've
just moved house and my arms are six inches longer from all the weight.
Bu
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Philippe Bruhat
(BooK) wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:21:24PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
>>
>> Then again, I generally swear off paper books for a while whenever I've
>> just moved house and my arms are six inches longer from all the weight.
>
> But you also s
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:21:24PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
>
> Then again, I generally swear off paper books for a while whenever I've
> just moved house and my arms are six inches longer from all the weight.
But you also swear them off before the move, because when looking for
a new house y
On 25 Aug 2009, at 16:43, David Cantrell wrote:
As an Experiment, Learning Perl and Mastering Perl are now USD9.99 in
various electronickal formats.
http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/39524
No, I don't remember what the user group discount code is.
The downside of ebooks is that they're
2009/8/26 Nicholas Clark :
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:05:49AM +0100, Andrew Smith wrote:
>
> Don't assume that anyone in particular isn't subscribed to this list already.
> Last I knew there were about 600 subscribers, in zones 1 to Inf.
> (Although probably no longer anyone Antarctica)
If you w
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:39:20AM +0100, Nicholas Clark said:
> Don't assume that anyone in particular isn't subscribed to this list already.
> Last I knew there were about 600 subscribers, in zones 1 to Inf.
> (Although probably no longer anyone Antarctica)
851 on the regular list and 160 on ann
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Jonathan
McKeown wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 01:05:49 Andrew Smith wrote:
>>[...]illegal downloaded pdf's[...]
>>
>> He sees them, even if you only look
>> before buying the book as totally wrong and a criminal offence.
>
> s/He/Copyright law in most count
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 01:05:49 Andrew Smith wrote:
>[...]illegal downloaded pdf's[...]
>
> He sees them, even if you only look
> before buying the book as totally wrong and a criminal offence.
s/He/Copyright law in most countries/
T,FTFY. HTH, HAND.
Jonathan
I think you will find there are a few of us on the list with Antarctic
experience, although that might have come before we saw
the light and discovered Perl ;+)
norm
--
--
Norman Cobley PhD.
Protein Databank in Europe (PDBe)
EMBL Outstation - Hin
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:46:24AM +0100, James Laver wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> >
> > (Although probably no longer anyone Antarctica)
>
> No longer? I'm sure there's a story here.
Alex Gough was in Antarctica. The only Perl mention I can find in his blog
is
On 26 Aug 2009, at 09:39, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:05:49AM +0100, Andrew Smith wrote:
Don't assume that anyone in particular isn't subscribed to this
list already.
Last I knew there were about 600 subscribers, in zones 1 to Inf.
(Although probably no longer anyone Ant
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> (Although probably no longer anyone Antarctica)
No longer? I'm sure there's a story here.
My current client has 'Antarctica' as a special-cased country for
people who don't want to participate in educational thingymajigs.
--James
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:05:49AM +0100, Andrew Smith wrote:
Don't assume that anyone in particular isn't subscribed to this list already.
Last I knew there were about 600 subscribers, in zones 1 to Inf.
(Although probably no longer anyone Antarctica)
Nicholas Clark
Don't let Randal Swartz hear you've got illegal downloaded pdf's. I
gave someone a URL for a site with references to available pdf's on the
web on the beginners perl mailing list, and was shot down with a barage
of RPG's on Good Friday this year. He sees them, even if you only look
before
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:43 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
> As an Experiment, Learning Perl and Mastering Perl are now USD9.99 in
> various electronickal formats.
>
> http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/39524
>
> No, I don't remember what the user group discount code is.
>
> Incidentally, you m
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 04:43:44PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Incidentally, you may have noticed that I've stopped wibbling about
> books being available for review. That's because less than 5% of review
> copies that I distributed actually got reviewed, and that's just unfair
> on the publis
As an Experiment, Learning Perl and Mastering Perl are now USD9.99 in
various electronickal formats.
http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/39524
No, I don't remember what the user group discount code is.
Incidentally, you may have noticed that I've stopped wibbling about
books being availabl
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