Online Bookstores for Technical Books? 17
Bookwork asks: "I'm looking for a decent (read: reliable and cheap) online book retailer that has a good selection of technical books, particularly computing related ones. So far the best I've come up with is bookpool.com, but I don't know much about them. If anyone has suggestions for decent online technical bookstores, I'd love to hear about them. The reason I'm asking this here is I guess many of you would purchase these sorts of books also, and may have some suggestions - I'm in the throws of building a collection of books such as those recommended on places like here."
Book Shopping services (Score:1)
Re:Can't beat Powell's - Amen (Score:1)
There's something to be said for seeing an entire bookcase about 15' high and probably a good 30' long with nothing but O'Reilly [oreilly.com].
addall.com (Score:1)
Both addall and bookpool are pretty decent.
Re:Can't beat Powell's Tech Books (Score:1)
Just say No Amazon [noamazon.com]
Here's one.. (Score:2)
Can't beat Powell's Tech Books (Score:2)
Powells [powells.com] - disclaimer: I used to work for them. They have more obscure merchandise than you can shake a stick at, so if you ever need an old math or engineering text, try em out.
(yeah, I'm a shill- but that's what this topic's about)
OPAMP (Score:2)
One of the best technical bookstores in Los Angeles. It's a lot of fun to browse the store, and now they're on the Web. They claim to beat Amazon's prices, too.
Page 1 books (Score:2)
bookpool.com (Score:2)
was looking for same (Score:2)
Suggested on-line technical bookstores (Score:2)
FatBrain (Score:2)
- James
Additional suggestion (Score:2)
Ummm. (Score:2)
Free online alternatives to expensive paper books (Score:2)
I find that Hogan Books [hoganbooks.com] (http://hoganbooks.com/freebook/webbooks.html [hoganbooks.com]) lists quite a lot of free books on the Web. The search engine makes it even more useful.
Many of the entries come from InformIT [informit.com] (http://www.informit.com/ [informit.com]), which has a pretty good free library.
Then there's the Linux Documentation Project [linuxdoc.org] (http://www.linuxdoc.org [linuxdoc.org]) for Linux-specific things.
Of course there's also all the other documentation on the Net. Search engines are wonderful.
Not quite computer-related but also worth checking out are Project Gutenberg [promo.net] (http://promo.net/pg/ [promo.net]), the Internet Public Library [ipl.org] (http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/index.html [ipl.org]) and the UPenn Digital Library [upenn.edu] (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/lists.html [upenn.edu] ). Mostly classics and other things whose copyrights have expired, but you have a couple of new books here too. General reading material - bookworm fare. =)
Yes, I know, you were looking for paper copies, and a lot of interesting information isn't available online. But it's worth checking out anyway. =)
Great deals on tech books (Score:2)
safari.ora.com (Score:3)