I hadn't noticed before, but many of O'Reilly's subject specific webpages now have a sample chapter archive with links to the online sample chapters from every in-print book within the subject.
The general URL format seems to be http://$subject.oreilly.com/pub/q/${subject}_chapters. Some sections don't seem to have a sample chapter archive.
Of course, nothing can compare to the sheer power of actually owning twenty O'Reilly Oracle books and having them on your shelf.
Oh yeah? It's even cooler to have gotten those 20 books for free. Nothing can compare to that.Of course, nothing can compare to the sheer power of actually owning twenty O'Reilly Oracle books and having them on your shelf.
Re:Nothing?
jdavidb on 2003-01-30T18:53:21
Touche. However, I did get many of the books in my collection for $5.
Re:Nothing?
jdavidb on 2003-01-30T21:55:13
Did you actually get 20 O'Reilly Oracle books for free?
Amateur.
Re:Bah
jdavidb on 2003-01-30T21:47:37
Amateur.
You're not flipping the bozo bit on me, are you? Real people don't need to call their colleagues.... Oh, never mind.
:) I like the color coded arrangement, even though it leads to strange subject groupings and separations.
I note two copies of Learning GNU Emacs in your collection which do not appear to be different editions. We won't disqualify the whole entry, though.
;) Extra points for owning UNIX Text Processing!
There is no orange in your entire collection, so it looks quite a bit different from mine. [Okay, Windows annoyances books are a different shade of orange, but I have the same book. Got it free.
:)] I think you need more of the X library.
Finally: how long have you been at this? I bought my first O'Reilly book in spring of 1998, UNIX System Administration, after installing NetBSD for the first time on my dad's Mac LCIII, on a 100 meg Zip disk, no less.
:) I'll bet you had a significant head start over me. In fact, if you limit to just this year, my library has grown by 14 books in less than 18 days.
BTW, the 20 referred to just the Oracle books. I have no idea what my complete total is.
What, no CD bookshelves?
Re:Bah
yudel on 2003-01-30T22:00:55
> my library has grown by 14 books in less than 18 days.Which is how many pounds a year?
But seriously: Shouldn't we be able to hand in proof of ownership of, say, 50 O'Reilly books (no, I'm not there yet) and get our choice of:
- Build, Make and Test your own Bookcases
- Power Tools in a Nutshell
- Running from Falling Shelves
- Book Shelve Hacks
- Yo, Gnat, are you listening?
Re:Bah
chromatic on 2003-01-31T01:17:45
50? Bah. I have that many even without counting Safari.
:) Re:Bah
jdavidb on 2003-01-30T22:01:20
I have a copy of the lion book, and you do not!
:P I can't believe it's out of print, now. How do newbies learn system calls, these days?
Re:Bah
petdance on 2003-01-31T14:52:52
We have the lion book here at work, if that makes you feel better...Re:Bah
ziggy on 2003-01-31T04:02:23
+0.5 for some of the X manuals (and -0.5 none of the Motif versions).Amateur.+2 for UNIX Text Processing
+1 for Cracking DES
+3 for The Frame Handbook
+1 for one of those DCE books.
+0.125 for one of the W3J's
-5 for not having any of the BSD manuals: USD, URM, PRM, PSD, or SRM.
:-) Book dick-waving
petdance on 2003-01-31T05:31:32
OK, here are updated shots (left and right) of my bookshelf from home. Mind you, this isn't my work bookshelf, which has all the stuff that I use daily. It's a lot more Perl-heavy.Ziggy will be glad to note the Motif manual. I'm rather pleased with having found The Frame Handbook, too.
jdavidb is incorrect that the two versions of Learning GNU Emacs are the same. One is a 2nd edition, but it's very small print that tells you that.
