My company has a subscription with the books24x7.com site, and I'm sure they offer individual accounts, but so far I'm ashamed that I've paid close to 200$ worth of computer books that I could have been accessing online for free. Including 'dummies' books, Teach yourself whatever, and just a multitude of other books. Just did a quick search for titles with 'python' and returned about 20.
On 8/14/07, Terry Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Brian Wisti wrote: > > > Check with your local library, too. > > Or even your not-so-local library. > > > The Seattle Public Library provides access to a limited selection of the > > Safari books (stuff published in the last 2 years from a handful of > > publishers). Maybe your region has similar access. > > I just did a quick search of the San Jose catalog, and see a bunch of > online Python-related books: > > Core Python Programming (2006, 2 copies) > Game Programming with Python (2004) > Programming Python (2006, 2 copies) > Python Cookbook (2005, 2 copies) > Python Essential reference (2006, 2 copies) > Python in a Nutshell (2006, 2 copies) > Python Phrasebook (2006, 2 copies) > Python programming for the absolute beginner (2003) > Python programming on Win32 (2000) > Rapid web appplications with TurboGears (2006, 2 copies) > Sams teach yourself Python in 24 hours (2000) > Twisted network programming essentials (2005) > Twisted network programming essentials (2006, 2 copies) > > And here's the kicker: > > The City of San Jose offers free library cards to all California > residents or property owners. > > http://www.sjlibrary.org/legal/policies.htm?pID=313 > > So a lot of not-so-local readers can get access to this material. It's > not nationwide or worldwide, but it's better than just being limited to > San Jose. (Of course I don't know the practical aspects of getting a > library card; can you do it by mail?) > > But leaving this particular library aside: see if there's a large library > system that you're not personally a part of that you can use. For years, > I lived in Santa Clara, not too far from San Jose. I used Santa Clara's > own city library; the much larger San Jose library; the Santa Clara > County library system (which provides a library to a number of cities in > the county that prefer to be part of a larger system to operating their > own); and even, for a while, the Santa Cruz County library system (when I > used to work down that way). > > Libraries rock. Use them well, and you can rock, too. > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
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