On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 06:43:07PM -0400, Bijan Parsia wrote:
--On Monday, August 13, 2001 11:02 AM -0400 Kevin Fisher kgf@golden.net wrote:
I was at Chapters (canada) on the weekend and just out of curiosity I punched in your name to their catalogue system...it claims your book is available and ready for order (4-6 weeks), although they had none in stock.
I think I'll pick myself up a copy. :)
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Speaking as lector rather than author and as one of the lucky few with a copy or two, I really recommend it. I've read all the chapters before (in various drafts) but there's something really nice about a printed volume. I had a good ole time last night with Andrew's Pluggable Primatives chapter, and, of course, *any* exposure to MathMorphs is a plus. The MathMorph chapter is, even given that, quite exceptional.
There's something about a printed book that is much nicer than reading it on a monitor. :) I don't mind "software" books for quick reference lookups, but when it comes to sitting down with a nice tea to read, nothing beats real paper.
I'm especially interested in the Pluggable Primitives chapter...I've been meaning to learn more about that.
Excellent read even if I can't *stand* to look at the networking chapter :)
(Which I think is quite good, but I just hate reading stuff that I've written :))
I hope distribution kicks in soon.
Well, I'll order mine from Chapters...hopefully that will inspire them to stock it. It would be a nice change from all those garish "For Dummies" books lining the bookshelves these days.
Maybe I'll try to persuade our local computer book store to stock it...they've already got quite a selection of non-Dummies books (at one time in the past they even had the Purple Book).