> Plus I have money. This book costs about as much as a good bottle of wine or a bad bottle of whiskey.
Exactly.
A few years ago I did a really aggressive weeding out of my bookshelves as things were getting far too cluttered. In the process I threw out what must have been - at cover price - several thousand pounds worth of IT related books.
On the resale market they were all too stale to have any value (though I did manage to give a handful away to friends). In one way it was a bit painful, but those few thousand pounds worth of books has given me a huge (financial) return on that investment!
Cheap at the cost of a good bottle of wine ... for the foundations of a career!
> a good bottle of wine or a bad bottle of whiskey.
I don't enjoy either but I have friends who decided to specialise and so I'm confident that you can easily reverse this split if you have decided you care more about one or the other.
The last 2 books I’ve bought (ostep and nand2tetris) are available online. Hard copies are nice and personally seeing it on my desk gives more more motivation to finish them.
Because we all know what happens if we're not the customer.
I have this; I bought it because I want to reward the author for producing a quality work, and because I want to encourage the publishers to produce other works that would appeal to me.
I also happen to like physical texts so I bought the paperback but I have this and the digital edition. The latter is convenient for when I am travelling and appropriately formatted for an eReader (not just the raw html from these pages).
The book isn’t free, its contents are published online by the author. Yes, nitpicking. But (1) I like a well formatted epub and (2) the author/publisher still hold copyright.
Wouldn't have happened with a book with just sample pages.