I’ve bought eight new books

Posted on 01 May 2006 by avinash

Thanks to the book allowance I get from the University of Mauritius, I buy about 10-12 books every year. I just bought those eight (through a very nice guy called Félix Atioune who works for Pearson Education) and I intend to read them by the end of the year – To my students: prepare to hear a lot about refactoring and web applications/architectures in the coming months :-)

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About avinash

I am the Managing-Director of Knowledge Seven Ltd, provider of quality consultancy, support and training for open source software. I am also an amateur photographer and musician. I use a Google Nexus One Android smartphone, an Apple MacBook, Mac OS X, Linux and a lot of open source software. I am married to Christina and we have two wonderful kids, Kyan & Anya. In case you are wondering, Noulakaz means "our home" in my native language, créole.
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6 Responses to I’ve bought eight new books

  1. Freeman says:
    13 May 2006 at 18:03

    Wow!

    I’ve got all of them in softcopy. If one is willing enough to prevent eye damage by staring at a screen for hours, better he/she buys the book.

  2. avinash says:
    14 May 2006 at 10:42

    I agree!

    I have lots of books in PDF (or HTML) format but I much prefer those which are still paper-based :-)

    They are easier to read, easier to transport and, most important, it’s easy to get a visual feedback of where you are in the book (just by looking at the thickness of pages remaininig)

  3. Dusan Marjanovic says:
    16 May 2006 at 05:37

    Easier to transport? :) I went to capital to have Database systems exam. An intro. to database systems by C.J.Date and Database systems a practical approach… byt connolly & Begg are not so easy to transport if you ask me :) Not to mention those software engineering books I have :)

  4. avinash says:
    16 May 2006 at 15:36

    I have a car ;-)

  5. tarriq says:
    29 Aug 2006 at 07:46

    “book allowance” niceeeeeeeeeee

    not bad at all being a lecturer ;)

    The amount of freetime + actually being paid to do research in a field you like + feeling of enlightening junior programmers :-)

  6. avinash says:
    29 Aug 2006 at 13:34

    Yep! The book allowance is actually one of the nicest things at the UoM. And I don’t really have “free time” as I am always reading/trying new things i.e. I am always somewhat doing a mix of pure research and R&D :-)

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