Unfortunately, no, because it was the “Rails Refactoring to Resources” book on O’Reilly’s Safari Books Online. I’m a little annoyed that my ten day trial expired because I read half of a 72 page “book” and I had to pay $19 for it. I would rather have bought it at a book store for $10 which is probably more than it’s worth. It’s actually a pretty shitty book. The author doesn’t like the technology all that much, it’s not very well-written and O’Reilly’s book reading system leaves much to be desired in the speed, quality, and convenience departments.
For example, say you want to read this book. You go on the site, find the book. Then you click “read it now.” Then you get interrupted by a bunch of crap about making an account. Suppose you do that. Then you get taken to the “this is your account” page. Then you have to go search for whatever it was you were just looking at again. Then you find it. Now you have to “put it on your book shelf.” Once you do that, it just says, “The book is now on your book shelf.” Then you have to navigate to your book shelf to actually read the book. The whole process took about 5 page loads more than it should have.
On top of all that, the viewer seems to work by chopping each page up into a bunch of little images. Sometimes the server gets bogged down and doesn’t give you all of the chunks. So you find yourself staring at this little page with all these little white holes in the middle of the text. Obnoxious.
Yes they are, I find a book, say read the book, and i’m paging through it, I get to add to favorites an all that stuff. plus they have a weird cross book link/reference at the bottom.
its on the unlimited corp account.
Do you have a link to the offender?
Unfortunately, no, because it was the “Rails Refactoring to Resources” book on O’Reilly’s Safari Books Online. I’m a little annoyed that my ten day trial expired because I read half of a 72 page “book” and I had to pay $19 for it. I would rather have bought it at a book store for $10 which is probably more than it’s worth. It’s actually a pretty shitty book. The author doesn’t like the technology all that much, it’s not very well-written and O’Reilly’s book reading system leaves much to be desired in the speed, quality, and convenience departments.
For example, say you want to read this book. You go on the site, find the book. Then you click “read it now.” Then you get interrupted by a bunch of crap about making an account. Suppose you do that. Then you get taken to the “this is your account” page. Then you have to go search for whatever it was you were just looking at again. Then you find it. Now you have to “put it on your book shelf.” Once you do that, it just says, “The book is now on your book shelf.” Then you have to navigate to your book shelf to actually read the book. The whole process took about 5 page loads more than it should have.
On top of all that, the viewer seems to work by chopping each page up into a bunch of little images. Sometimes the server gets bogged down and doesn’t give you all of the chunks. So you find yourself staring at this little page with all these little white holes in the middle of the text. Obnoxious.
And then there’s the fuggin’ content!
Not that it helps much, but the corporate Safari accounts are much better.
I’m sure that even in the corporate account, this book sucks and the author is a douchebag.
Your point is well taken. Is the corporate account substantially different than the $40/month “pro” account?
Yes they are, I find a book, say read the book, and i’m paging through it, I get to add to favorites an all that stuff. plus they have a weird cross book link/reference at the bottom. its on the unlimited corp account.