A freebie

IEEE/Computer Society has announced a new benefit to members, to be available in December: free access to 600 titles in the O'Reilly Safari library. Depending on what is made available, this could save me some slots in my current 10-slot subscription.

And that do I get for the $15/month that I'm paying? Right now, I have these volumes on my virtual bookshelf:

• Duthie and MacDonald, ASP.NET in a Nutshell, 2/e
  
• Meyer, CSS: The Definite Guide, 3/e
  
• Bergsten, JavaServer Pages, 3/e: I checked this out for a specific project, and will release it soon
  
• Pogue, Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual
  
• Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions, 3/e
  
• Snell et al., MCPD Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-547): this goes back once I pass the exam
  
• Northrup et al., MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-536): ditto
  
• Pogue et al., Windows XP Pro Edition: The Missing Manual, 2/e
  

I can swap out anything after holding it for 30 days. Most important, I can change up to the next edition of a book without having to pulp the old one.