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... and my purpose here is not to review them again, but to bring to your attention a new packaging by O'Reilly of both books that seems almost too good to be true.
Java in a Nutshell http://www.ercb.com/ddj/1996/ddj.9612.html Webmaster in a Nutshell http://www.ercb.com/brief/brief.0028.html
To create the Deluxe Editions, each of these well-regarded references has been bundled with a CD-ROM that includes the full text of five O'Reilly books on related topics. The CD-ROMs can be viewed with a web browser and searched with a Java applet on virtually any UNIX or Windows machine. (The Java applet does not, I was disappointed to discover, run on the Mac at this point.)
In the case of the Deluxe Edition of Java in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, the printed text has been updated to cover Java release 1.1, and the CD-ROM provides the same text plus four additional books:
However, these fine packages from O'Reilly have convinced me that there is a place for technical books on CD-ROM after all. The complementary combinations of titles, the huge volume of information that has been edited and validated in the typically painstaking O'Reilly style, and the tremendous discount compared to buying the books individually have few (if any precendents) in computer book publishing.
-- Ray Duncan
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