[Noisebridge-discuss] FYI Safari Books Online on SFPL

Fri Apr 3 08:14:54 UTC 2009

I was hanging out with Bill Pollock, of No Starch Press, tonight (they're publishing a book teaching Python to kids by NB member Al Sweigart, and also, as of tonight me and Jeff Keyzer are now signed up to write a book on teaching people to play with microcontrollers).  Bill has donated one of every book in the No Starch catalog to Noisebridge (and they're all on the bookshelves on the 2nd floor).  He gave me the three newest ones tonight, which I added to the bookshelves:  "The Google Way", "Growing Software", and "The Manga Guide to Electricity" -- the last one is an actual manga comic book.

Tonight Bill offered to give us books at 50% discount, suggesting we could sell them at 25% off of list price, thus keeping 25% for Noisebridge.  What do folks think of that?

Mitch.

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> Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:47:52 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] FYI Safari Books Online on SFPL
> From: endenizen at gmail.com
> To: tito.jankowski at gmail.com
> CC: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> 
> Rubin: Yeah, that was me trying to deal with that nonsense. It kinda
> fell apart when 5 people said maybe. The plans were quite expensive
> and quite limited (over $100/person/year for access to up to 10 books
> per month, with no downloads or printing). I just dropped the idea of
> pursuing it and figured if people really wanted it, it would come up
> again. While in the mean-time, something better might come up (like
> collecting physical books or... hey, this library thing!)
> 
> Anyway, that's a great find and I will definitely use it. Thanks!
> 
> -Brian
> 
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Tito Jankowski <titojankowski at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Great links. Also, for those times when you need a non-open access science
> > paper and don't want to pay $30 apiece...
> > As a non-academic with the DIYbio community, I send my requests off to
> > getarticles _at_ googlegroups.com. The group, made up of students who *do*
> > have free access to articles, will send you back a pdf or upload the article
> > to scribd.
> > Tito
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I think what we decided is that if someone wanted to take it on, then so
> >> be it.  I don't think anyone stepped up to the plate to do so.  As is the
> >> case with a lot of "someone should do" things.
> >>
> >> Christie
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Search for Safari on the wiki and it should bring up meeting notes from
> >>> when someone brought up to the group the possibility of Noisebridge getting
> >>> an account with them. Some folks didn't feel well with the fact that the
> >>> books had some sort of DRM attached but no one blocked any sort of vote.
> >>> Actually if I remember right no vote was taken and the subject was not
> >>> brought up again at later meetings, not too sure what happened.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Rubin Abdi
> >>> rubin at starset.net
> >>>
> >>> On Apr 2, 2009, at 11:45, Jennifer DarmstadtHolm
> >>> <estro at surrealityinc.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Also, access to academic/professional journal articles that used to be
> >>>> really only available to universities or companies willing to pay the high
> >>>> subscription fee are becoming available through various changes in the
> >>>> publishing industry.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hindawi, fer instance, has a large section of engineering and science
> >>>> journals open now (ideology info: http://www.hindawi.com/oa.html. Not all
> >>>> journals are open access, and some of the titles haven't started being
> >>>> published yet, but still. Sample journal:
> >>>> http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ahci/volume-2008/  Click through to the
> >>>> articles and select full text pdf.)
> >>>>
> >>>> Mirth.
> >>>>
> >>>> -jen
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --- On Thu, 4/2/09, William OConnor <wtoconnor at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> From: William OConnor <wtoconnor at gmail.com>
> >>>>> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] FYI Safari Books Online on SFPL
> >>>>> To: "NoiseBridge Discuss" <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> >>>>> Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 11:03 AM
> >>>>> Since I am a heavy user of O'Reilly books (  lack the
> >>>>> space, money and desire to buy them all for myself) I
> >>>>> consider this is a great resource. I thought others might
> >>>>> like to know about it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Safari Books online are available FREE through the San
> >>>>> Francisco Public Library for those that have a library card.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Goto: http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/emedia/
> >>>>> ClickOn: Safari TechBooks Online
> >>>>> Enter: Your Library card number
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Let me know if this isn't the kind of thing to post on
> >>>>> the list.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -bill
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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