I succombed and subscribed to safari, the scheme that lets me read ten technical books a month for about £10]. I have been tempted since I first found it, I've been studying the site and my mouth has been watering more each day. It means I can write some potted book reviews here (ten a month). I can also do quotes, up to 250 words.
I went for basic subscription rather than premium: the latter lets you download a limited number of chapters as pdf files and gives you discounts if you buy the books but it costs nearly twice as much. Also, I cannot use the books for commercial purposes so anything I learn I will have to try to forget while I am at work (not normally a problem).
First book: Mind Hacks an interesting book about various tricks to do with analysing the workings of the human brain. This kind of thing:
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It is interesting so far but I haven't really got into it.
Second book: Windows XP Cookbook, a collection of recipies for making Windows XP more spicy. This has been a little disappointing to me so far, it's mostly stuff I am already aware of, a lot of it I wouldn't bother to put on this site. It has told me how to disable taskbar notifications that never seem to do anything and yet are not hidden automatically (right click taskbar, properties, customize, get a list of icons and the ability to hide each one).
Conclusion: how am I going to find time to read two books a week?
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