Comments on: I admit it, I’m addicted…(to books that is)

By: Cari

Cari — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:10:37 +0000

Have you checked out PaperBackSwap.com?

If not, you should check it out. It is a free swap site where you can swap your gently used books for other books.

http://www.paperbackswap.com/index.php?n=7&r_by=ladycari

By: friedl

friedl — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:07:32 +0000

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By: Scott Schimanski

Scott Schimanski — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:37:10 +0000

Mr. Weinberg:

Thanks for the comment. I look forward to the book about software testing as well as dog washing. Best of luck to you.

Scott

By: Gerald M. Weinberg

Gerald M. Weinberg — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:03:15 +0000

Scott, thanks for the marketing tip. I’ve dropped everything and started the book on dog washing. I’ve got to do a great deal of research, because our three German Shepherds won’t tolerate being washed, though they like to roll in mud.

In the meantime, watch for my forthcoming book, “Perfect Software: and other illusions about testing.” (Dorset House says it should be ready before July.) It does have some tips that might be useful when washing your dog, especially if your dog is full of little bugs.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:25:01 +0000

Scott

You said you don’t get it. Well i don’t get it either. Most of my reading is for pleasure if i need to read for work i will read for work. But when i just want to decompress and have some me time i read fiction.

I don’t get reading tech books just to read them, unless I plan on using what I have read I would forget it fast. But you give me a good fantasy book watch out i can eat them like drinking water.

But then every one has something they really like to do. You like to read tech stuff lots of other people like to read for the joy of it. Meh to each his own reading and topic styles.

By: dcarver

dcarver — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:40:54 +0000

I hear you brothers. I have been collecting technical books for 30 years. Two walls full of those. About 400 Technical books. As for the Fiction I have almost 5000 volumes of those. Ran out of wall space in the house and the garage last year.

One of the reasons i picked up my kindle was to reduce the amount of paper I was throwing away. I went to getting a online subscription of the Wall Street Journal. Downloads everyday and no paper to throw away. I also have started picking up the classics off project gutenburg, new ebooks from baen and fictionwise. Up to 400 or so books on the kindle.

I am currently reading some fiction,
• Fatal Revenant by Stephen Donaldson
• Myth-Gotten Gains (Myth Adventures) by Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye

I have started buying my technical books as pdf’s so I am reading
• Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008
• Client-Side Reporting with Visual Studio in C#
• Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition

I also switched to getting my Music (over 10,000 tracks) as MP3 downloads from amazon and My dvd’s through Amazon Unbox to save space.
The only disadvantage I see so far to going digital on this stuff is I am using over 100GB for Music, 450GB for ~700 movies and TV shows and ~5GB for electronic books. I am trying to find out if I can put a 8GB Sd card my kindle now and I think I will try to pickup a MS Home Server from HP to supplement my 1TB World books.

By: Chris Brandsma

Chris Brandsma — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:21:27 +0000

Head First Design Patterns (a Java book, yes. but it is really good and they have a unique style for a programming book)

XUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code, Meszaros

The Best of Software Writing I , Spolsky
Here is a sample article from the book: http://www.neopoleon.com/home/blogs/neo/archive/2003/09/29/5458.aspx

JavaScript Unleashed, Wyke & Gilliam

Building Technical User Communities.

On the pile:
Application = Code Markup, Petzold

AJAX: The Definitive Guide

My wife is also a booky. Between the two of us we don’t have a wall big enough hold all of our books, well over 1000 books.

By: Vlad Navazhylau

Vlad Navazhylau — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:45:55 +0000

I don’t buy as much but I read a lot at Borders and my company provides free subscription to Safary Books Online

I am currently reading:

Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager (Paperback)
by Michael Lopp

Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions (Paperback)
by Tim Ash