Used IT Books

[James Knott]

Kamran wrote:
> William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:40:17PM -0400, Kevin Morris wrote:
>>> There are a few used books stores around the downtown core. One that 
>>> I know of
>>> is near Dundas and Yonge it is beside the World's Biggest Book 
>>> Store, not sure
>>> the name of the street. If you walk south of Bloor along Yonge you 
>>> will find a
>>> few used book stores that might carry some good used computer books 
>>> even though
>>> they don't specialise in computer books.
>>  
>> If you know what you are looking for, post that - I know I have a number
>> of books that I could donate if they were of use.  I have also given
>> several books to the Linux Caffe, so I know that they had some useful
>> stuff at one point.
>>
>> If you have needy people, look for existing programs and report those to
>> the list - if I could donate things to somewhere I might do so, and
>> others might as well.  If there are no existing programs, put out a call
>> for what you need.  I know I have books and tech that are not fully
>> utilized that I would donate, and I am probably not alone.
>
> I appreciate the offer.  The books I am looking for are on the 
> following topics:
>
> A+(Meyers or Docter or Brooks)
> CCNA(Odom)
> MCSE Training Kits even if it is only on Windows XP Admin(Micrsoft 
> Press) or Winodws XP Inside and Out
>
> I understand the last request may seem offencive considering this is a 
> LUG but one of the people I am trying to help can not even operate 
> Windows very well, he can not copy folders.  When some of them saw me 
> working in a shell on my laptop they asked me if I was "writing codes" 
> or if I was programming.  They want to learn basic Microsoft Admin 
> stuff to get tech support jobs so it does seem reasonable.
>
> To be clear I have little use for these books and I own the XP one and 
> CCNA ones anyways.  These books are for people who to put it bluntly 
> are poor and are looking for a way out of their situation.  Thanks for 
> any assistance any of you can give.

You might want to see if there are any courses available through the 
government, YMCA etc.  It's sounds like they'll need a lot more than 
just books.  Have you shown them the public use computers at the 
library?  There are also lots of computer books there.


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