What’s on your (Safari) bookshelf?
Kevin Day, May 10th, 2008I’ve been trying out the Safari bookshelf recently and it’s really nice. Despite the recent buzz that programmers don’t read books, I think published books (electronic or dead-tree) are the best way to lean a subject because they’re more complete and have been thoroughly edited.
For Safari, I have the 10-book-per-month plan, which is $23. I plan on needing a lot of reference material in the next few months so it’s a valuable resource to me at the moment. Some of the larger books take up more than one “book” on my 10-slot book shelf though. The books on my shelf right now are:
- JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition (2 slots)
- PHP Hacks (1 slot)
- Programming Amazon Web Services (2 slots)
- Programming Python, 3rd Edition (2 slots)
- JavaScript: The Good Parts (1 slot)
PHP Hacks is kind of a let-down, but the other four books are pretty good. I’m interested to find out if I’ll find any books that are useful enough to buy hard copies of after I’m done using Safari.
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