Will Bridges

I joined O'Reilly's Safari Books Online last night. So for $39.95 a month (the cost of one good tech book) I get access to 3600 tech books available online. I can download to pdf up to 5 chapters of books a month. It seems not all books have downloadable chapters but it's still an incredible buy. I was debating buying myself a book last night and instead that's what I settled on. O'Reilly has long been one of the best publishers of tech books ranging across all topics. The flip side is you have to read the books in your browser (except for the chapters you download per month), which really sucks for some people. They have some cool features like you can bookmark areas in a book and add notes to certain parts of a book. You can also save your favorite books as favorites. The search feature will let you search the contents of an entire book as well as all the titles of a book. Any links within a book can be clicked to go offsite. Also, it's a lot easier to copy and paste code from an online book than it is to manually copy by typing up the code from a physical book. All in all I think it's well worth the money.