So much I’m interested in, so little time…

I have a problem. I will admit it. I am addicted to book buying. I must spend thousands of dollars a year on books easily. My Indigo card is in the front slot of my wallet. It’s rare when I don’t have Amazon or Chapters open in my browser. I can’t even pass by an Indigo or any bookstore for that metter without going in and most likely buying something, usually about some programming topic.

I don’t think this is necessarily a bad thing, but I think I often overextend myself when it comes to reading. Currently I am reading, in no particular order: Ajax in practice, Ant in action, Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer (Pragmatic Programmers), Grails in action (manning MEAP), jUnit in action (manning MEAP), the Pragmatic Programmer, Java Puzzlers, PHP in Action and The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal. All of which I have been reading various snippets from almost daily.

Additionally, waiting to be read I have: Born Standing Up, Code Complete 2, The Art of Hacking, iPhone in Action, Clean Code and Agile Web Development with Rails.

Some books that I have started reading but put off until I have more time include RailsSpace and Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008.

Finally, I am also looking to reread Effective Java (2nd ed.) and jQuery in action.

Even with all these books, I’m still looking to pick up books on the following topics: JavaFX, Struts, Hibernate, Spring and Wicket.

I have a problem.

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5 Comments

  1. Paul Schofield said:
    January 30th, 2009

    This isn’t your only problem.

  2. Mike said:
    February 2nd, 2009

    As the author of many of these books, I thank you for not checking them out of the library for free.

  3. kev said:
    February 2nd, 2009

    @Mike
    I find that I read and re-read books as well as use them often as reference. It doesn’t make sense for programming books to check them out of the library. At least for me.

  4. cam said:
    February 2nd, 2009

    @Mike
    It’s not free, it’s taxpayers money. You might fine sucking on the government tit, but Kevin has more dignity than that.

  5. Mike said:
    February 11th, 2009

    I’m sorry Cameron, is that Couchware officially coming out against public libraries? An interesting position to take.

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