O'Reilly Discounts Every EBook by 50%

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There is also the Unix Humble bundle available at https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unix-book-bundle

Does anyone have recommendations for any O'Reilly books that are especially good?

Unix Power Tools. The Unix is large.

Effective Computation in Physics. Has a surprisingly good coverage of the python development cycle.

Python for Data Analysis. Pandas.

High Performance Browser Networking by Gregorik is necessary if you're doing web dev.

You have to love the first comment is 'it's so easy to pirate so why is anyone buying?'

O'Reilly is the perfect example of make it easy to get and people will buy over pirate.

I think it was slashdot where years ago there was a comment lamenting the DRM-free digital downloads from purchased O'Reilly products.

The user was complaining this wasn't good enough. He actually wanted O'Reilly to publish MD5 hashes of all their works, so he could very his download had no traceable watermarks.

To me it was ridiculous he expected a company to do this, especially one of the most DRM-friendly companies to boot.

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