wait until you get to school, they might have a group account. i stumbled across a 'free chapter' link a while back and when i hit the safari site i found myself magicaly logged in as a 'user from the University of Foo' with access to all of the books.

if not, bug the library and IT people. a site license for a University is probably costly, but worth it.

our safari access disapeared as mysteriously as it appeared, it took a few emails about and a couple of weeks, but it's back. =P

if i were paying for access i would probably setup a squid cache with long expiration times so i could check back over what i'd recently seen while on the road or in the park (with my laptop) but since it's sorta free i don't have the urge to protect my investment in information availability.

i may not have figured out the right way to use the UI, currently i find it quite annoying to navigate the library and the books, and the pages are way too short so a lot of time is wasted 'turning the page'.

otherwise it's quite nice to have so many books seconds away.

real books are nice, but a pain to move every semester. plus they're often out of date after the 4 years you're using them (or at least a couple of editions behind, plus no corrections).

In reply to Re: Re: [OT] Online 'Bookshelves', does it work? by zengargoyle
in thread [OT] Online 'Bookshelves', does it work? by Tomte

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