[Chicago] Good Tech Bookstores in Chicagoland?

[Christopher Allan Webber]

You mean you didn't enjoy "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Python For
Dummies"?  Man.

And remember: nothing is sacred.  Not even O'Reilly.
http://www.amazon.com/AOL-Nutshell-Desktop-America-Online/dp/156592424X

I love this customer review for this book:

AOL IN A NUTSHELL STIL ROCKS!!, February 28, 2003
By DONNA J. JANELLE (TIVERTON, RI USA) - See all my reviews

ALTHOUGH THIS BOOK STATES IT IS FOR AOL 4.0, IT IS STILL VERY USEFUL
FOR BASIC AOL KNOWLEDGE. I HAVE USED THIS BOOK AS MY "BIBLE" AND FIND
IT STILL HELPING ME ALL THE TIME.

CERTAINLY WORTH THE COST. THE BEST AOL BOOK I HAVE PURCHASED. 


"Jon Sudlow" <jsudlow at gmail.com> writes:

> "Office for congenital morons"
>
> Haha, I agree with you. It gets pretty tiresome knowing books like
> "Starting a computer for dummies" are the only books that sell in a decent
> volume to keep them around on the shelves. Hmmm, online bookstores for the
> chicago tech community,I smell a django project cooking....
>
> BTW: Dont you older guys have a massve pool of books? aybe put them
> together and have a Chipy bookstore?
>
> Or we could just screw that and sell the .pdf's to people with laptops?
>
> -Jon
>
> On Jan 8, 2008 1:18 PM, Martin Maney <[1]maney at two14.net> wrote:
>
>   On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:49:57PM -0600, Michael Tobis wrote:
>   > There's nothing in Chicago like Dallas's Nerdbooks, as far as I know.
>   > I think there used to be one around Naperville called Bits N Bytes,
>   > but I never managed to get there. That may be ancient history.
>
>   Yeah, it's long gone, and much missed.  There may still be an online
>   ghostly remnant, but it was, of course, browsing the actual books inthe
>   actual store that made it so wonderful.
>
>   At this time the best, or at any rate certainly the largest technical
>   book selection I know of in the area is at Microcenter, of all places.
>   Aisles and aisles of books there... non-computer science, too.
>   > I love sci/tech sections in bookstores and know many of the ones in
>   > Chicago. Tech quality seems to come and go. Four years ago I thought
>   > the U of C bookstore was one of the best in the world. It is now
>   > remarkably mundane. The best selection I know of  (or as of about a
>   > year ago) is or was the downtown DePaul campus's Barnes & Noble,
>   > followed by the Borders at Oak Brook.
>
>   Yuck.  I was lucky enough to be introduced to Borders back when you had
>   to drive to Michigan to visit one.  This was before they started
>   appearing everywhere, and the hiring process was mainly concerned with
>   finding people who liked books and knew a lot about at least some types
>   of them.  My benchmark is being asked "can I help you?", explaining
>   that I was looking for a copy of the Smalltalk-80 book, and having the
>   guy (1) know which one I meant, (2) that they had had a copy, and (3)
>   after checking the shelves offering to order the copy they should have
>   had but didn't; would you like us to call you when it gets here?  I
>   haven't been to the Oak Brook Borders in some years becuase it was
>   getting too too sad watching what had been quite a good computer
>   section slowly dwindle (I remember being a little bemused to find not
>   one but several copies of Lion's Commentary there back when it had been
>   blessed for publication.  Probably that store's all time high point
>   IMO)
>
>   Nowadays I mostly shop at Bookpool, which leaves a bit to be wished for
>   in the browsing, but what else can you do when the local stores don't
>   carry squat anymore, and most of that being along the lines of Office
>   for Congenital Morons?
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