Free HTML5 Kindle Book • Hacker News Board

Tyrannosaurs wrote: post #11

UK link (currently showing as free and my receipts both say free): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Robin-Nixons-HTML5-Course-ebook/dp/B...

Yeah, I just got it from Amazon UK for free too. I checked the invoice and it all says £0.

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Post by peterhi » Tue, Jan 10, 2012, 12:38 PM UTC

I can confirm that (in the UK at least) this book is free. I'll go and have a look at the CSS book too.

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Post by piers » Tue, Jan 10, 2012, 12:43 PM UTC

Just to confirm, it is free (if you're in the UK) but the link above is for the US version which isn't free.

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Post by mrsebastian » Tue, Jan 10, 2012, 12:47 PM UTC

mrsebastian wrote: post #12

chrisacky wrote: post #2

These aren't free. Do not click the link.

I ordered it just now -- came up as $0.00 on the sales invoice thingee.

Here's a screenie of the invoice: http://cl.ly/193w1q3Y230e040g2u2M

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Post by kittxkat » Tue, Jan 10, 2012, 1:05 PM UTC

It's not even through Amazon.co.uk available for me: http://i.imgur.com/tyB57.png. Ugh, I hate country restrictions!

Since it is free, would it be legal for anyone to send it to me?

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Post by kittxkat » Tue, Jan 10, 2012, 1:06 PM UTC

kittxkat wrote: post #17

It's not even through Amazon.co.uk available for me: http://i.imgur.com/tyB57.png . Ugh, I hate country restrictions! Since it is free, would it be legal for anyone to send it to me?

Ah, nevermind, it's also free on Amazon.de: http://www.amazon.de/Robin-Nixons-HTML5-Course-ebook/dp/B005... and http://www.amazon.de/Robin-Nixons-Crash-Course-ebook/dp/B006...

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Post by bentruyman » Tue, Jan 10, 2012, 4:26 PM UTC

Don't bother with this book, at all. I'm just skimming through it and the author encourages the use of the font element, styling properties of elements like bgcolor. In other examples, he inlines CSS styles onto the elements — if that wasn't bad enough he's doing so in the `class` attribute, not the `style` attribute...

Other things that irk me is he keeps using the term "tags" instead of elements and "arguments" instead of properties.

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Post by rsanchez1 » Tue, Jan 10, 2012, 9:19 PM UTC

chrisacky wrote: post #2

These aren't free. Do not click the link.

They cost me $0.