Re: Cost of printed books (was Re: Online Books)

"John Russell" <netnews2_at_johnrussell.mailshell.com> wrote in message news:h7oc4ucn2tmae8tfjhlkk68epjj7le7jlh_at_4ax.com...
> >On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:14:21 -0500, "Chef In Your Home"
> ><chefinyourhome_at_sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >
> >>Does anyone know of any online books to learn Oracle, PL/SQL, etc.
> >>The price of books in Canada is outrages.
>

<snip>
> Just curious what readers of this group feel about availability,
> prices, and ergonomics of the current printed books. Do current prices
> on the Oracle store prevent you from ordering, or result in ordering
> one copy for a group rather than individual copies? Do you work
> primarily from PDF printouts? Would 8.5 x 11 size be too cumbersome,
> or is it more important to have fewer pages (resulting also in fewer
> 2-volume and 3-volume books)?

We tend to use a combination of the excellent search engine at tahiti (One of the best things Oracle has done in recent memory IMO) books from third parties and searches on google. (including the famous occassion when I discovered the answer to a problem that had been puzzling me for about a day only to discover that I had posted it :-( ).

What I *would* pay money for is the manual collection in Palm doc format together with a search function. I accept that you could only load one or two manuals at a time into the device but it could be a real boon.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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