Ebooks on Linux

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 09:41:30PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> I recently bought a book for an online course I was taking.  The ebook
> was about half the price of the hard cover book in stores, but you could
> only read it for 6 months, IIRC.  Instead, I attemped to buy a used one
> through Chapters/Indigo and wound up with a new paperback verison from
> India for about $18, instead of the about $150 the hard cover edition
> was in the stores!

So if you fail the course and want to do it again, you have to buy the
book again?

Also those books tend to be useful reference material later.  6 months
limits are stupid on text books.

> BTW, the book was "Computer Networks" 5th edition, by Andrew Tanenbaum
> (of Minix fame) and David Wethereral (the course instructor).

Hmm, I have never seen a paperback version.  I think mine is a 1st or
2nd edition.

I suspect the 5th edition no longer bothers to cover ATM. :)

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