Oracle-L: RE: CodeNotes for Oracle9i...

From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 07:44:45 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004E6CE5.20021011074445@fatcity.com>

I have an odd question about these on-line books. Can I copy-and-paste the text?

Like many of you, I seem to end up with long commutes (why are the best jobs never in your neighborhood?). I find listening to books on CD to be a better use of time than reading bumper stickers. Nobody ever seems to issue Oracle books on audio. So I got a text-to-voice program, and it works pretty good to create an audio version of a book. But many of these eBooks zealously protect their text and prevent you from doing copy-and-paste on the text. Fortunately Oracle makes their books readily available. Any ideas are welcome. And my apologies to the authors on the list that are going "he wants to do WHAT with my book!!".
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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I believe the Book Safari is changing. It is supposed to be more flexible now.

http://www.oreilly.com/news/new_safari_0902.html

Jared

"Grabowy, Chris" <cgrabowy_at_fcg.com>
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So every few months my Lookout reminder pops up to remind me to check out what new Oracle books have been released. I stumbled upon a new book called CodeNotes for Oracle9i on Amazon.com, but the interesting part is that it is available in eBook format. Here's the (probably broken) link...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006ISCN/qid=1034101493/sr=1
-25/ref=sr_1_25/104-5919725-7522346?v=glance

The eBook version is $9.95 and the shipping is free (big grin), while the paperback is $13.97 plus shipping. Are you comfortable reading an eBook? You decide.

At any rate, I will probably break down and buy the eBook. Not so much because the book is great (or not) but because I hope to send a message to publishers to publish more books in the eBook format, which is also why I posted this message.

I know that O'Reilly has the Safari Bookshelf website, but I found it to be restrictive and pricey.

BTW, if for some reason you are or will be using .Net, the CodeNotes eBook version is free...

http://www.codenotes.com/do/downloads/downloadsNETbook

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