Have you guys looked into OReilly's User Group Program?  <a href="http://ug.oreilly.com/">http://ug.oreilly.com/</a> They send you free hardcopy for user reviews, and you keep the book in the library. If you're gonna read the book anyways, it doesn't take much effort to write a 2 paragraphs review about whether you like it or not... it's a great price compared to the retail IMO. -- Samir <div>On 3/6/07, Max Luebbe <<a href="mailto:max.luebbe@gmail.com">max.luebbe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'd be in. I read a ton of books because I spend 3 hrs on CTA a day. I'd prefer if rather than just reading Linux books all day we made it more of a computing/nerd general book club. Some suggestions to start: Just For Fun (Linus Torvalds, this needs no rationale) Cathedral and the Bazaar (Again, obvious reasoning) Feynmann Lectures on Computing (Got this a while ago, really interesting read by one of the smartest people in recent history) Any Neal Stephenson/William Gibson/Phillip K. Dick If any of the non coders wanted to pick one of the free <a href="http://python.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">python.org </a> books, I'd also be willing to work through that with the group at whatever pace we chose to help with debugging and understanding concepts. Thoughts? -Max<div> <div>On 3/6/07, RJ Marsan <<a href="mailto:rjmarsan@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> rjmarsan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Blah. if we DID get it working, it'd be the first real project we've gotten off the ground. <div><div>On 3/6/07, Rich Johnson <<a href="mailto:nixternal@ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> nixternal@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div> On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Eddie Martinez wrote: | Ignore or delete if this is too offtopic or stupid, but talking to RJ, | Freddy Martinez, sir False Courage and a few others, has led me to | really want to start a book club. | | Perhaps not with chi-Ubuntu exculsivly, or at all, but I think it | would be a cool thing to do once or twice a month. I like reading and | learning, I assume most of the Ubuntu/Linux users do too. | | I also remember this coming up in a previous topic, during a huge | swarm of emails that had 3 million project ideas. | | So... any takers, any supporters? any hate mail? Let me know. | | -Eddie M. I think this would be cool. Very well could be a useful tool in creating a stronger bond within the team as well as getting to know more people on a personal level. Email Oprah and ask her how she started her book club :) -- Rich Johnson <a href="mailto:nixternal@ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">nixternal@ubuntu.com </a> GPG Key: 0x2E2C0124 </div>-- Ubuntu-us-chicago mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago </a> </blockquote></div> -- Ubuntu-us-chicago mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago</a> </blockquote></div> </div> -- Ubuntu-us-chicago mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-chicago@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago" target="_blank"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago</a> </blockquote></div>