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So, about books...
any you're loving right now? I'm finishing up the book "A Stolen Life" (The story of Jaycee Dugard). and I need a rec for my next book. Thinking of giving Hunger Games a shot, but heard it's hit or miss.
Side note: got a Kindle Fire...
Started by SpiderSpray on
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My book club picked it and it was the one ....
I loved The Book Thief.
I'm reading the book thief right now.
I just finished Explosive Eighteen by Janet the hunger games .
I'm reading the book thief right now.
The hunger games.
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Is there a Windows program that can convert audio books in .M4B format to Audible book format?
Why?... I want to play the book on a Garmin Nuvi.
Started by WireGuy on
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Audio book and podcast files, which also contain.
Audible use a proprietary format for their Audible Book files tracks are unencrypted and use .m4a accordingly.
To buy it again in a different format.
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How do you manage your programming books between home and work? Do you carry all your books between the two or do you exclusively make use of e-books at one of the locations?
Started by sduplooy on
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I usually buy a 'real' book if I'm going to read it cover from cover, but I can access it from anywhere been a while since I read a book....
But that's just personal preference
I find Safari Books a big help.
To use a physical book.
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What kind of books are you reading; cuz i wud like to knw what books are great, good, or bad question
Started by Bloodysoul Heartbreaker on
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The latter is a wonderful steampunk book I hate books that jump around, but....
I was afraid of reading the second book because the plot sounded much more dull than pacing, a small town, child protagonist, and really awesome.
Cooper.
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I keep reading in news and blogs that programmers do not read books, that the book industry is 'in decline' and that writing a book isn't worth the effort as the money is pathetic. My question: is it true? Should we just bury the book industry and stick...
Started by Dmitri Nesteruk on
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The book and a wide variety of information nothing beats....
Not all of the information is available online yet (that I know of) .
Reading is good with a copy of POSA ...
I disagree just read the book Brisingr from Christopher Paolin last week.
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Also is there a better book you'd recommend for learning about compilers, or is that the one to get?
Started by Greg on
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"Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" by Aho, Sethi, Ullman -- This book
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and....
As featured in Hackers, a very amusing moment.
I have it on a shelf at home somewhere.
Aho, Sethi and Ullman.
book.
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I loved the 2005 book "Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework" by Johnson. What would be the 2008-9 equivalent of this in terms of the quality and clarity the book provided?
Essentially looking for a book for someone new to Spring, I ...
Started by ThaDon on
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Looks like Apress has an appropriate book ..
It's imminent since 3.0 M3 is out ).
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I am having a few issues with what is probably a reasonably simple SQL statement - unfortunately, my skills don't go as far as this and I can't get my head round it!
I have, for example, the following tables:
booking_record client Booking record may have...
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Select c.title, c.initial, c.surname, c.labelno, c.email from client c where exists (select * from booking_record where labelno=c.labelno and bookingdate between @start1 and @end1) and not exists (select * from booking_record where labelno....
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The iPhone SDK 3.0 has been in beta for a few months, so I would think that by now there would be some good reference/tutorial material floating around in the form of e-books (it may be a little too early for print books).
So far, I only came across iPhone...
Started by Philippe Leybaert on
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Yes, there is a BETA book (and eBook) you can already the iPhone 3.0 update the NDA is officially....
Development community in the Phoenix area, and has been working hard on this book in addition to creating and updating apps for the AppStore.
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I'm interested in purchasing an e-book reader, mainly for reading programming related e-books.
Up until now, e-book readers seemed to have a pretty bad reputation. I wonder if this situation has changed and anyone had any good experience with any of them...
Started by Pop Catalin on
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Common netbook screen resolution of 1024 x 600 is good for comfortable reading for the same reason, and had... .
Instead look at any of the netbook type laptop PCs avaialable with dedicated e-book readers.
Don't buy a dedicated e-book reader.
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