O'Reilly Cookbook titles for only $9.99

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Post by v4us » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 8:41 AM UTC

O'Reilly Cookbook titles for only $9.99
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Post by trevi » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 10:44 AM UTC

Which ones of those would be worth buying?

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Post by pistoriusp » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 10:53 AM UTC

trevi wrote: post #2

Which ones of those would be worth buying?

The one you're actually going to read.

P.S. They have this "sale" once a month and the iPhone version of these books is also half the price.

(O'Reilly also provides instructions on how to get to the actual "book" out of the iPhone app:

http://oreilly.com/ebooks/oreilly_iphone_tips.csp Check "Extracting the EPUB pearl.")

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Post by trevi » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 11:10 AM UTC

pistoriusp wrote: post #3

trevi wrote: post #2

Which ones of those would be worth buying?

The one you're actually going to read. P.S. They have this "sale" once a month and the iPhone version of these books is also half the price. (O'Reilly also provides instructions on how to get to the actual "book" out of the iPhone app: http://oreilly.com/ebooks/oreilly_iphone_tips.csp Check "Extracting the EPUB pearl.")

Thanks for the tip!

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Post by auxbuss » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 11:17 AM UTC

On twitter, Tim O'Reilly posts a daily (or almost daily) $9.99 deal of the day.

http://twitter.com/timoreilly

He happens to link to stuff that interests me, so I'm happy following him, and there's the bonus of a cheap read every now and again.

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Post by ja27 » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 1:19 PM UTC

pistoriusp wrote: post #3

trevi wrote: post #2

Which ones of those would be worth buying?

The one you're actually going to read. P.S. They have this "sale" once a month and the iPhone version of these books is also half the price. (O'Reilly also provides instructions on how to get to the actual "book" out of the iPhone app: http://oreilly.com/ebooks/oreilly_iphone_tips.csp Check "Extracting the EPUB pearl.")

It still amazes me that Amazon bought Stanza (which powers O'Reilly books on iOS). Stanza's still going strong though.

http://ireaderreview.com/2009/04/27/kindle-vs-stanza-amazon-...

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Post by pasbesoin » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 2:00 PM UTC

auxbuss wrote: post #5

On twitter, Tim O'Reilly posts a daily (or almost daily) $9.99 deal of the day. http://twitter.com/timoreilly He happens to link to stuff that interests me, so I'm happy following him, and there's the bonus of a cheap read every now and again.

The ebook deal of the day offers have a dedicated RSS feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/oreilly/ebookdealoftheday

P.S. Sometimes it appears they don't cut off right at midnight. Weekends would be one example of this, but also on weekdays.

I've yet to see one of their "heavy hitter" titles offered, though. But I haven't been following the feed regularly.

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Post by DavidBishop » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 2:59 PM UTC

I picked up the JQuery and CSS cookbooks. The CSS one really looked sharp and any solid guide on JQuery is a must have for web developers.

I keep getting suckered with these $9.99 deals. What are you doing to me, O'Reilly?!

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Post by belehe » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 3:13 PM UTC

Just bought some. Lets see how many of them I will really read...

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Post by kreek » Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 3:13 PM UTC

Or for $20/month (10 books/month) or $40/month (unlimited books/month) you could get a safari.oreilly.com account with access to every O'Reilly book published (and more).