I'm not a book freak at all. My main source of information is searchable references, like perldoc. This makes my Perl book list a rather short one. Until very recently, I owned no Perl book at all. But now, I own:

Besides the subject of Perl, the only recent computer books I have are I haven't read MRE's 2nd yet, though.

Some books I read via O'Reilly's Safari. I thought that that'd be cheaper than buying them if you read them only once, but this only works if you remember to actually use your membership. I haven't used it for months :)

I'd probably use Safari much more often if its interface didn't suck, and they fixed that stupid bug that makes == render as =  =. I wanted Safari to be able to read books on my PDA. I scraped some (against their rules, so don't do this) in order to be able to do so. Now, they provide downloads. Single chapter downloads, which is pointless for someone who mostly skims.

Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }

In reply to Re: What's on your Bookshelf (related to perl)? by Juerd
in thread What's on your Bookshelf (related to perl)? by ghenry

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