That is the big advantage of getting books out on shelves, so people can look through them. That's harder to do with more independent works. Now that I think a

That is the big advantage of getting books out on shelves, so people can look through them. That's harder to do with more independent works. Now that I think about it, I use to buy programming books in University and just after (2005-ish), but I haven't really since. Even when I work places where we have a book budget; I never request anything. These days I read the documentation, and if I get stuck, I go to a stack exchange site.