On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 09:47 +0100, Andrew Kelly wrote: > > But a lot less convenient on the bus (train, plane, toilet, in the > > park near the lake, on the couch during commercials, in the > > waiting room at the doctor's office, etc and so forth). And they > > just aren't as bloody "sexy" as a nicely printed book, are they? > > :-) > > Not to mention that you can read a book while the computer isn't > working, in an effort to make it work again. perhaps slightly off-topic but, when it comes to books, i'm a big fan of this approach: http://sagehill.net/book-description.html my favourite reference for docbook and XSL processing. readable online for free, or throw a few dollars at the author and buy the real thing. i wish more books were available that way. rday p.s. DISCLAIMER: i was an informal reviewer of the early editions, so my name shows up in the acknowledgements. but i have no financial interest whatsoever in that book. i just really like it. -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
