[Texas] Choice of 12 O'Reilly books

[Jason Galyon]

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 16:28 -0500, Brad Allen wrote:
> Wow, that is great, Jason!  Thanks for arranging that.
> 
> E-Books are an interesting idea for giveaways. Will they give us
> download codes? Could we have a physical card picturing the book which
> could be placed next to the ticket basket, so people can see the
> prizes and drop tickets in the associated basket?
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Jason Galyon <jtgalyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Howdy, O'Reilly is going to send 12 print books or ebooks to us.
> >
> > Please sound off with what you folks would like.  Here are some of my
> > ideas in my personal library that I recommend:
> >  * Python Cookbook
> >  * Beautiful Code
> >  * Restful Web Services
> >
> > the rest are out on loan and I can't find my sheet of them, but here are
> > some off the top of my head I want to see myself:
> >  * Beautiful Data
> >  * Beautiful Architecture
> >  * Beautiful Testing
> >
> > A good place for viewing available books is
> > http://oreilly.com/python/index.html
> >
> > I will pick the 12 most popular print books and send an email Thursday
> > afternoon.  Please sound off in the mean time.
> >
> > Pythonically yours,
> > Jason
> >
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I would argue the print books are more physical, yet your idea of cards
makes that seem a moot point (you can search ebooks after all).

Lets discuss this more...  I will ask Julie.

J