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Re:Start Binge-Reading by dboreham on Sunday May 05, 2019 @01:28PM (#19833842)

This doesn't make sense. The reason people binge watch (as opposed to, say, bing drink) is that there's no incremental cost to watch an additional episode. I had expected this article would be about a new kindle subscription service that gives you unlimited access to all books. But instead it's about...reading, the traditional regular kind.

FWIW I have subscribed to O'Reilly Safari for years: it gives you essentially unrestricted access to approximately all computer science and programming books. I've found it to be invaluable. I haven't bought a book for work in years. Something similar for all books would be great.

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Re:Start Binge-Reading by EliRivers on Sunday May 05, 2019 @01:41PM (#19833925)

I find my local library does that fairly well.

Also, "approximately all computer science and programming books"? Approximately all? Just how good an approximation is that? I can't help but think a pretty bad one. Maybe "a few books on approximately most of the top fifty or so languages and a bunch of books on fairly common techniques, tools and systems"? Sure, if you just need any book on something, it's going to be something fairly common and they've probably got one.

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