Books for professionals

November 25, 2004 · 1 min read

Books for professionals

http://www.books24x7.com/   -Referenceware for Professionals

http://www.safaribooksonline.com/  - Safari Bookshelf

http://safari.oreilly.com/  - O'Reilly Safari Bookshelf (same as Above I think it is the original)

Some online book libraries - should ask my boss to get us a subscription, seems like a stupid resource not to use considering the prices - that of reading text online (which I should get used to by now) in this library, compared with the price of actually buying a book, waiting for it to arrive and finding out that it isn't good enough (especially with the crazy prices charged for these books, especially in Israel)

This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: meshel

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