Although, certain online learning resources inspire confidence -> e.g. Django book, Thinking in Java, O'Reilly Safari etc. The nice thing with an online versio

Although, certain online learning resources inspire confidence -> e.g. Django book, Thinking in Java, O'Reilly Safari etc. The nice thing with an online version is that you can e.g. scale up the text size to an ultra-readable format, jump quicker between footnotes/ citations, retrieve the TOC, look up words in the index quicker, leave feedback (Django Book) on each paragraph. It really depends on the design quality of the online resource... hypertext craftsmanship. And look at all the info mangling possibilities in Freebase/ Freebase Parallax (navigating between related sets of information) -> http://mqlx.com/~david/parallax/ http://mqlx.com/~david/parallax/ or even Wolfram Alpha. Books can't do this. They are linear.