Register the LUGs at O'Reilly & Associates and members get a 20% discount?

[Greg Rundlett]

Bill McGonigle wrote:

> I filled out the form for DLSLUG - they'll send flyers with 20% 
> discounts on books and conferences. So, more expensive than Amazon but 
> the conference discount could be substantial.
>
> They're going to send an info packet "within 6 weeks" with information 
> about getting review copies of books and door prizes for events.
>
It sure will be nice to have some (O'Reilly) door prizes to add 
incentive to join in regular meetings and other events.

I've mentioned it before, but it's worth noting again that if the book 
your looking for is not an O'Reilly publication, but it is a technical 
book, you just can't beat BookPool.com. They have the deepest discounts, 
easy to use website, and quick shipping even when you choose 'ground'. I 
tend to buy my O'Reilly books direct from the publisher to provide 
financial support to O'Reilly, but in a cash crunch, BookPool will 
invariably have the lower price on O'Reilly books too.

Another point worth mentioning is the mediawiki engine which has 
built-in support for book-finding and book-shopping by ISBN number. If 
you give mediawiki an ISBN number, it will spit out a list of library 
searches, online bookseller searches etc. to make finding and/or buying 
the book easy. No, this is not an affiliate program. It's just a tool 
for finding the book.

For example, I've started to catalog my bookshelf at this page 
http://freephile.com/nbpt-gnus/index.php/Books_To_Read. In every review, 
I post the ISBN, which the mediawiki engine turns into a list of 
searches at a few booksellers[1]. The wikipedia.com Free Encyclopedia 
project (powered by the mediawiki engine) has an even more impressive 
array of search options. The same ISBN as before leads to this result[2]

[1] 
http://freephile.com/nbpt-gnus/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0596003161
[2] 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=0596003064

And btw, if anyone would like to provide a book review or if you have an 
opinion on one of the books that I've listed, you are entirely welcome 
to edit/create any page on the Newburyport Gnus website (www.nbptgnus.org).