Personal Experience: Why I Canceled My O'Reilly Subscription Despite Its Extensive Technical Library
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speckx
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Summary
The author shares their personal experience with an O'Reilly subscription service, describing its extensive catalog of technical books and learning resources from multiple publishers. While acknowledging the value of unlimited access to software engineering materials, conference recordings, and webinars, they conclude that the $500 annual subscription isn't cost-effective for them due to their slow reading pace with technical books.
Key quotes
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The catalog is just enormous and covers pretty much every technical book around software engineering et al. that I might ever want to read.
Unfortunately, I cannot read technical books fast and definitely not fast enough to make the subscription be worth $500 per year.
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