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[jfb]

Further motivated, I've just put almost all my computer books up for sale on Amazon and Half.com. If you're curious, here's the Half list. I can't find a way to get the Amazon list, although maybe it'll be here eventually. Anyway, it's mostly around the cluster of Java, web stuff, and programming languages, plus some textbooks and the TeXbook.

About a third of the books didn't seem likely to earn enough to be worth selling, which means they're going free to someone. They're mostly dated, but if you want to get a basic understanding of these subjects (as of a few years ago when I stopped buying computer books), leave a comment and I'll tell you what I've got: Human-computer interface design, Painter 5, DirectX, hacker jargon, Dylan, Scheme, C++, XSLT, XML, Palm programming, and many Java topics. Otherwise they'll go to the Friends of Some Public Library.

At this moment I can recognize an Addison-Wesley book from its ISBN number. I hope that doesn't last.

I was surprised to discover I own a $100 (or more) paperback: Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines. I bought it for $13.95 at the Stanford bookstore ten years ago. Predictably, I have not put this one up for sale, while I "decide what to do with it", i.e., dither.

Comments

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind having the Dylan book.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Huh, I'm surprised you don't have it already. It's the one Apple published, FYI, before the spec was final.

I wonder if it'll fix in the box with those CDs.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I am too. I looked at my shelf twice to check. I thought I had picked it up from someone else who getting rid of books for free but I guess not. (That's how I got The NeXT Book, though, which I've still never even opened.)

I thought there was only ever one Dylan book, but apparently not.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I'd like the HCI book too, now that I think about it. And, what the heck, which Java topics?

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Essential Java Style; Graphics Programming with Java; The Java Developers Almanac (1999); Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines; and, from O'Reilly's Java series, 2D Graphics, Beans, Network Programming, Servlet Programming, Swing, and Threads.