First, off.. let me say that I think the Hackers guide is one of those must have books....

That said, the last version, at least as far as the size of the book went, was a disgrace. Talk about a waste of paper... The first one was portable, the way a book should be. Heck, it is as big as a my local Yellow Pages...

The Hackers Guide is best served as being an e-Book. I don't know if you have experienced an e-book, but if you have ever used the GlassBook Reader, you will never view PDF's again with the Acrobat Reader...


>>>When you wrote "Hacker's Guide", did you make sure that things behaved with different platforms?
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>>Did all three of us test every item that went into the book? No. Did I test everything I wrote? Yes. [snip...] FWIW, very few of them were OS-related.
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>Tamar,
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>What I think would be great is the Hacker's Guide as an on-line (subscription-based or advertising-supported) resource. This type of resource should not be constrained by the snapshot-in-time, cast-in-stone nature of books. The product evolves, how we use it evolves, what we know about it evolves, other technologies evolve, etc. A published book format requires so much more thorough testing, since it is almost impossible to correct errors in a way that reaches the purchasers. But an on-line document can be corrected and updated almost immediately.
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>So if the 10th reader discovers an error, you'll probably have it fixed before the 12th or 15th reader has seen it (assuming the 10th reader tells you :>). And, if it were subscription-based, you might even have a record of what other readers had visited that specific topic and could notify them that the topic had been updated. Very cool--what book could do that?
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>Regards,
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>-- Randy