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O'Reilly $9.99 Exclusive Best of "Ebook Deal of the Day"
- kloncks 16y agoAny thoughts on TapWorthy?
- davidedicillo 16y agoI've been reading it for a while, definitely "worthy", I'm a UI designer and I've been designing iPhone applications for more than one year and I still find it extremely interesting. There are a lot of things that you take for granted without thinking about the why you are doing it, this book explained to me.
- js4all 16y agoA real bargain, thanks.
- mapleoin 16y agoCan anyone recommend anything from this list? I'm almost through Learning Python after having worked with Python for about 2 years and I really appreciate it. It goes into great depth on all of the commonly used features of the language. I think I got to appreciate it more precisely because I already knew a good deal of Python. This book also shows the whys in Python and gives you an idea of what will be new in Python 3 (and why).
- cturner 16y agoI learnt from the original edition of Learning Python. I saw a recent edition recently and couldn't believe how thick it had become! :)
- jpp 16y agoWell, I'd say Cooking for Geeks, but I'm a little biased. ;) -Jeff Potter
- jergosh 16y agoJust bought it, entertaining stuff ;) E. g. loved how what happens with collagen is broken down (ahem).
- jpp 16y agoThanks! And it tastes good, too! ;)
- mitjak 16y agoIs the book relevant for vegetarians and vegans as well?
- kmfrk 16y agoIs this directed at Americans with an Imperial system and Fahrenheit scale, or will we Europeans also be able to understand it? :)
- mishmash 16y agoAny thoughts on R in a Nutshell?
- goodside 16y agoI work in a statistics-related field and use R daily. Most R books emphasize applications for statistics, not R itself; they're written for non-programmers. R in a Nutshell overviews R itself and assumes basic programming experience. I personally prefer this method, since I can just Google for any particular stats functions I need. If you're already a programmer, this is probably the R book you want.
- trioxinSC 16y agoMy background is in SAS and SPSS, but my new job required me to learn R. If you require an absolute beginners guide for R, this book might not be for you. It assumes you have a background in programming and basic statistics. I am about halfway done the book, and found the chapters on graphics and lattices to be very helpful. The one thing that is lacking, at least so far, is a section on formatting output. Most data is shown in raw tables, but for my job I need to feed these into excel. My R toolbox has this book and the built-in R help system. So far, those two things are all I have needed two write my scripts.
- goodside 16y agoLook into the RExcel plugin for Excel. There are other ways to get data between the two programs, but they usually involve importing and exporting CSV files. With RExcel, it's only slightly more complicated than copying and pasting.
- waterlesscloud 16y agoI'm wondering how long it will be until the "e" in ebook seems anachronistic.
- michael_dorfman 16y agoHow long did it take with email?
- waterlesscloud 16y agoYou need to differentiate between email and physical mail, because physical mail is still in common use. That will not be the case for physical books at some point in the not-too-distant future. So ebook will not last as a term, there will be no need for it.
- michael_dorfman 16y agoEmail didn't kill off physical mail completely, but ebooks will completely eliminate physical books?
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- awolf 16y agoGoodReader finally just earned its keep. It was the only way I could get my newly purchased Cooking for Geeks PDF into iBooks. Safari has no Open in iBooks option for PDFs (lame).
- derefr 16y ago> Safari has no Open in iBooks option for PDFs (lame). If you're talking about Mobile Safari, it very well does (at least in iOS4, once you have iBooks installed.) If you mean plain-old-Safari—well, Safari itself doesn't offer any help, but you can just drag-and-drop the PDF into your iTunes library once it's downloaded, and it'll appear in the "Books" section.
- awolf 16y agoHow?
- artlogic 16y agoDropbox handles this beautifully.
- nonrecursive 16y agoAlso note the code "4cast" gets you 50% off any ebook
- mcobrien 16y agoAll O'Reilly's books are available cheaper if you have an iPhone (or maybe just iTunes?). Follow the guide here to extract the embedded ePub from one of their iPhone apps, which retail at $1.99 - $4.99. Scroll down to "Extracting an EPUB Pearl". http://oreilly.com/ebooks/oreilly_iphone_tips.csp http://oreilly.com/ebooks/oreilly_iphone_tips.csp btw, TapWorthy is well worth the $4.99.
- lylejohnson 16y agoAre they exactly the same ePubs that you'd buy from the web site? If so, I'm just stingy enough to do this. ;)
- mcobrien 16y agoI don't know if they're exactly the same but I converted the Tapworthy one and it looked great as an ePub in iBooks on the iPad.
- paulgb 16y agoMany are available through the Android App Store for $4.99 as well (with the same export to ePub option).
- ydant 16y agoI use this option, but beware. At least some of them don't offer the export. I forget exactly which book it was, but one of the ones I bought didn't have that option. I imagine I could go pull the files manually off of /data/app, though.
- nkassis 16y agoYou don't get access to the full on pdf which I find useful in some cases due to examples and figures.
- cmjreyes 16y agoAnyone have any experience with Cooking for Geeks?
- jpp 16y agoThe first 4 or so chapters—about half the book—is available as free preview online, I think on both amazon.com and O'Reilly. Feel free the shot me any questions... -Jeff (jeff at cookingforgeeks.com)
- blub 16y agoI've read the food illness chapter online and I liked it. I think I'll read the whole book on safari.
- jpp 16y agoThanks! :)
- quinndupont 16y agoMost public or university libraries have full, free access to Safari Online, the O'Reilly ebook subscription service that normally costs $40. You usually have to go through a slightly annoying web proxy, but you get all the books you could ever want.
- nkassis 16y agoI use it all the time but the one my university provides doesn't let you download or even chapters making on the go reading a pain. That's why I still buy ebooks.
- petercooper 16y agoApress does a similar daily deal: http://apress.com/info/dailydeal http://apress.com/info/dailydeal
- mapleoin 16y agoThis is great, but is there any RSS feed? I couldn't find one.
- chollida1 16y agoI didn't find one either. I just assumed that they want you to come back each day to the site:)
- petercooper 16y agoI had a look and: http://twitter.com/ApressDaily http://twitter.com/ApressDaily (all Twitter accounts have an RSS feed too :-)) Or, you can just add the original page to Google Reader as-is. No need for RSS feeds nowadays since they track page updates too.