Re: Recommend an E-book Meeting the Following Criteria (Newbie, Long)


Veli-Pekka Tätilä wrote:

> 5. Before I let you go I should mention one important factor in choosing the
> book. I know this narrows down the scope loads, but if at all possible the
> book should be readily available in electronic form. My favorite formats
> are: CHM, TXT, HTML, accessible PDF and LIT in this order (Well I hate the
> last one more than most). The reason is that I'm actually sight impaired and
> should I get a physical book, that means hours or days of scanning before I
> can enjoy it on the computer with a formant speech synth. Even so, typos or
> subtle layout bugs might creep in.
>
> As to getting physical books in electronic form, apart from ordinary e-books
> I know of two ways. The first are services like <www.bookshare.org> which
> are great in principle and legal, too. THe only problem is I don't live in
> the States and the local Finnish equivalent has very few tech books. the
> other, of course, is getting books scanned by someone else and distributed

search on python: 700+ hits. Since your'e experienced, you might be
able to just dive in with Python in Nutshell and Python Cookbook

http://safari.oreilly.com/JVXSL.asp

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