From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 6 12:36:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from eterna.binary.net (eterna.binary.net [216.229.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D6D37B993 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 12:36:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nathan@rtfm.net) Received: from matrix.binary.net (root@matrix.binary.net [216.229.0.2]) by eterna.binary.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA55136; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:40:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from nathan@localhost) by matrix.binary.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA22419; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:36:44 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 15:36:44 -0400 From: Nathan Dorfman To: Matthew Hunt Cc: John Purser , "'J McKitrick'" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: amazon email response Message-ID: <20000406153644.A21956@rtfm.net> References: <20000324150922.A89498@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <000901bf95ac$e09c0ca0$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com> <20000324093208.C9572@wopr.caltech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <20000324093208.C9572@wopr.caltech.edu>; from Matthew Hunt on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 09:32:08AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 09:32:08AM -0800, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 08:20:31AM -0800, John Purser wrote: > > > I'm trying to avoid the big guys and I want a good selection, rapid > > shipping, and a good web site. In short, Amazon without the patent issue. > > I recommend fatbrain.com; they have an excellent selection of > technical books and a decent (and, it seems to me, expanding) > selection of other books. In my experience, the claimed availabilty > for an item is accurate. The search engine is a little weak, > not having a good idea of "best match". Bookpool.com...selection isn't to die for, neither is their search engine, but when they DO have what you're looking for, it comes pretty cheap. 20% off and up on tech books. > -- > Matthew Hunt * UNIX is a lever for the > http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey -- Nathan Dorfman [http://www.rtfm.net] "The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train." --/usr/games/fortune To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message