Book It

Yesterday I went on a small rant about how Kindle is slightly unfair with the way they sell their eBooks. The more I talked with people, the more I realized there is no need to pay $20 for something you can't physically have. It is for this reason I have decided to purchase the book in a physical version. Although it will cost me an extra couple of dollars, I have a physical copy of a book. Plus, the book itself is very big, so it is very hard to lose because of its size. In addition, I took time to consider when I would be using the book. This book is to be used when I am creating an application in Xcode, so I don't want to be reading the book on the computer while I am trying to work on it. I don't want to read it from my iPhone either, as that would go to sleep too often. Although it is a big book, I don't mind. I think jumping between the index and the chapters would be tedious on a computer compared to a physical copy. We will have to see how this works out. I am really hoping to follow through with this book.

~Dave

Kindle Books

Books can be expensive, especially when they are teach something. In my case, the books I am looking at purchasing are about $20 each. Not the type of money you just want to toss around. The thing is, I would like to buy the books for both my iPhone, and Mac, Kindle app, as well as a physical copy. Now, the kindle copies are good because you only have to buy it once and use it on all the devices. However, I don't seen anyway to buy the physical copy too without buying the kindle copy. This is a disappointment as I would like to only have to buy each book once. I find this sort of a greedy system which Amazon has set up. I wouldn't mind if this was for a book that is $1, but two books that are $20 each is quite a lot. If I had to pay for both kindle distribution and physical copies, I could end up paying a whopping $80. So now I must figure out if there is a way to only pay once.

~Dave