For anyone else trying to find this out and finding the site to be amazingly slow:
Use coupon code FAVFA - prices won't be discounted until check-out.
It works for multiple books, although the headline looks like it's for a single book.
O'Reilly is selling any eBook for $9.99 today
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#12I guess they gave themselves a DDoS...
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#13Can anyone make any recommendations?
Their server seems to be swamped. There's nothing like a unresponsive server to sober you up from a whimsical book purchase on a FRiday.
I was trying to buy:
* Making Things Talk (great into to networking with low-level HW)
* The Best of Instructables (excellent selection of mostly simple projects, includes IKEA hacking)
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#14Microsoft Press titles excluded
I'm fine with that.
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#15Free to Choose ebook deal of the day
Oddly, "Free to Choose" (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Free_to_Choos... ) is not one of the books that you can buy.
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#16If I had an iPad I might consider it to see if I can read on that, but I've found that I only ever read books when printed on the pulped, mangled, processed bodies of brutally murdered trees.
Especially for technical books where I end up flipping around pages back and forth something that the computer probably will never be able to model intuitively.
Though I must say I like my kindle enough that it is readable for normal books.
But there is just something about paper :)
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#17Can anyone make any recommendations?
Here's a few recent buys: - Javascript: The Good Parts (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748/) - High Performance Javascript (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596802806/) It's always a good time to buy a few classics: - Information Architecture for the WWW (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527341/) - Javascript: The definitive guide (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101992/) - Beautiful Code (http://oreilly.com/c…
> Javascript: The definitive guide
I'm waiting for the 6th edition:
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#18Can anyone make any recommendations?
I'm getting Confessions of a Public Speaker, I was long interested in this book.
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#19Hm...Server seems very busy, can't place my order :(
Yeah I got tossed on checkout too. There's a major nerdgasm going on there.