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Thursday, March 24. 2005
Safari Bookshelf
In the process of learning Apache Struts for a large project at work, I have discovered Safari. This online bookshelf, created by O'Reilly and some other technical book vendors, allows me to checkout books to be read in a web browser instead of having to buy stacks of paper books.
I seem to be in the minority of preferring to read online and not on paper, but I find this to be an incredible site for me. I tend to devour technical books for a month or two, then never look at them again; the Safari Bookshelf is ideally suited to this usage pattern.
I can also read the books I have on my bookshelf anywhere I have web access without having to haul a couple hundred pages of paper around. This was my other problem with paper books, I never had the one I needed for the project I was working on at the moment.
I have seen a few discussions online along the lines of what's the point, this type of material can be found with a Google search. I find that this is true for reference material, but information on the web is lacking on important matters like basic concepts and good initial learning resources.
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