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I’m embarrassed to say that I googled for an ebook for one I wanted to buy at Amazon, instead of actually purchasing said book since I felt shafted that I couldn’t get free shipping as a Canadian. I swear, I’ve gotten free shipping from them before. I *could* get free shipping from the Canadian site at Amazon.ca, but prices haven’t been adjusted for Canadian dollar spike. Why pay $50 CAD for a book when it’s going price is $30US. Forget Chapters/Indigo for that matter, as the same book is like $60-$70 CAD. With the Candian dollar stronger than the American, why let myself get lynched?

Anyways, I actually found that very ebook. It was the first hit I got from Google. The site that serves it is www.scribd.com, and they’re basically like a youtube of documents. You post a document, and they host it publicly for everyone. I don’t know who takes the time to get the pdf versions of these books up, but a lot of popular books are indeed up on scribd.

The books I’m reading on their right now are:

The Mythical Man Month - A classic in software engineering that outlines the process of software development.

Code Complete, 2nd Edition - A book on how to write better and more complete code. Kinda like the bushcraft of software. Coding is a craft, and as a software developer who is always trying to continually get better, it’s a book that I quite like.

Anyways, both books are ones that I will purchase as soon as the list value for us Canadians matches the American price. Otherwise I can’t bring myself to buy the books when they’re almost twice the cost simply because I’m a Canadian.

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Another note along the lines of free internet stuff. This is pretty late news, but I finally downloaded the new Radiohead album. No, I didn’t pirate their music, but I got it from their official website.

If you goto www.radiohead.com, you can purchase their new album online for the low low price of whatever you want to pay for it. Entering $0.00 is a valid price, and will allow you to download their album. You can also buy their fancy box set for $80, and it’ll get shipped to you. I’m listening to it as I type this, and it’s an amazing album so far. If you’re a radiohead fan, go out and get it if you haven’t already. If you’re not a radiohead fan, go out and get it anyways. Hell, I would pay for it if I had to.

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