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You know, you seem pretty out of touch.

You are comparing something free with a service that costs "couple of $100 bucks", more specifically $400/year for a subscription. If $400 is so little to you that you can just toss it aside that's all well and good, but that is not the case for a lot of people.. most of whom the subject of this post is aimed.

400$/y is not much for what you get from Safari books, and it's a minor expense for many professionals in the first world.

How is this even remotely the same? Most of the Safari catalog isn't textbooks and it's $400 (a couple would be 200 btw) a year.

a couple doesn't necessarily mean two, depending on where you are from. it can also be synonymous with "a few"

My local library card gives me full access to safari. Might be worth checking if yours does, too. ACM membership also gives access to a subset of safari.