I also thought it looked neat... until I noticed the same thing. I'm
not so sure it's such a good deal, since as you note, the same How-tos,
etc. are available free from the net, AND if you print them out and put
them in a ring binder, you can add to or replace things at your
convenience.
My solution was to buy pre-punched three ring binder paper and ten 100
page three ring binders. Instead of buying a bound book with a lot of
How-tos in it of undetermined utility, I print out what I need, when I
need it, and get multiple references which I can easily prioritize and
annotate. This is all the more practical, since I frequently find that
just one How-to won't get the job done, and I need parts of several.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Forster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 4:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Good Book for beginner?
Linux Complete Grant Taylor, Ed. Sybex 1999. The "World's #1 Linux
Value "
-it says so right there on the cover and would be correct if it was not
all
available for free on the internet. It's a compilation of stuff from
the LDP
(Linux Documentation Project), is cheap (US$20, CAN$29 for 980 pages)
and it
is worth buying as a reference because it is so much nicer to turn pages
than
browse them.
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