On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Malcolm Greene <[email protected]> wrote:
> As part of the process of downsizing and reorganizing[4], We threw out an entire set of FoxPro Advisors (plus duplicates) as well as a nearly-complete FoxTalk set. We let go of all but a few sentimental favorites of FoxPro 2.x. Next up, VFP 3 books... There were a lot of good books I bought, read, appreciated, and don't need to go back to again. Some I bought just to tip the authors. These got donated to the local library book sale. By technical content I mean your standard bible-sized tomes published by > SAMS, O'Reilly, Apress, etc. Can you help me to understand this? What are you buying and why? I have found that very few of the 1000+ page books are that useful in paper form. (Hacker's Guide a notable exception, of course :) Usually, there's a small section worth reading, and a large reference that's easier to look up online. The standard 'bible' formula has too much introductory material and too much filler. As part of my ACM membership, I've got a small Safari subscription, which is handy for reference lookups. For the rest, product site documentation, Google and Stack Overflow seems to answer nearly everything. For most of the "idea" books I like reading with a cup of tea, I find the good ones rarely exceed 250 pages. I've become a big fan of the "one good idea, expressed well" books, and less of the encyclopedias. I find the latter are usually out of date, and there's a better online reference. > I'm considering the "Kindle Paperwhite, 6" High Resolution Display with > Next-Gen Built-in Light, Wi-Fi" (about $120 US)[1]. > A friend with poor eyesight can't rave enough about his Paperwhite, although I think he bought a somewhat larger one. I have a (heavy!) Lenovo K1 tablet and it has good PDF support and a Kindle app. The tablet is 1280x800, color, with a battery that pretty much needs nightly recharges, but it's an Android box that can also be a test platform, surf board or game console. Just to avoid being overrun with devices here, I tend towards more general purpose and less specialized ones. (Picture the 90s geek with calculator, beeper and cell phone holsters) -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4tqfe9i3zree+ogm8v4v1iqj4yoj12nwgmej5ufdi6...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
