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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @01:36AM
$400/year?
Do you even get to keep copies or is it online only?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @09:54AM
$400 a year seems high, but that's the cost of one or two books per month? With two in college and two in high school the research books available from the other the other publishers are a life saver. Plus, I am no longer investing in bookcases.
You can download parts of or whole books based on a token system, but I never need to download them because they are all available all the time. Plus, why buy (or download) a whole tech book for the handful of chapters (if that) that you really want/need? How many times do I need to learn what a variable is or a loop?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @12:16PM
I don't buy anywhere near that many books per year.
And if you stop paying, everything goes poof!
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Monday November 28 2016, @04:22PM
Yes, it does seem high.
This is because it is, in fact, high like a troop of crack-addicted monkeys discovering a warehouse full of cooked-up rock and glass pipes.
In my Calibre library, and on my android tablet that I use for reading e-books, I can decide not to purchase additional books indefinitely if I choose to, and all the books stay right there in my local storage for when I am ready to read them or refer to them. I can convert them, copy them, whatever. I have the epub files on a local intranet for access on whatever device I might be using. Etc.
I add new tech books, of course, but to be honest anymore I learn more tech skills from stack exchange than from proper packaged books. If it comes to that, Calibre imports html pretty well for preservation and later reference. I definitely don't spend $30 - $40 each and every month as a committed sum on a certain genre of books; some months it's money, and some months it's "Hey, look what I found today."
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying I would never. But I would have to be sufficiently filthy rich not to miss the money.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @05:08PM
I'm OK with the cost because of everything it offers my business and my family. YMMV