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Re:I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k... by erikano on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @06:44AM (#9850824)
Judging by the title, this book seems targeted at beginners. Nonetheless, I decided to buy it since I'm using Django in my current side project.

I have a question (not related to my side project). I maintain a list of my eBook library where I put the following information about the eBooks I have (data for this book in parentheses): Publisher (Leanpub), Title (Hello Web App), Authors (Tracy Osborn), Published (), Purchased (2015-07-08), Last known update (2015-05-08), Catalog Page (http://leanpub.com/hellowebapp), Read duration (). As you can see, I was unable to determine what to put in the Published field. I would like to have information for this on the form Month Year. Could someone -- preferably Tracy or a Leanpub employee -- tell me what to put there?

PS: If you'd like to see my eBook library list, you can find it at http://www.erikano.net/eBooks/purchased.htm. Note that some of the books at the bottom of the list are ones I am not so interested in reading any longer.

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Re:I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k... by kfk on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @08:39AM (#9851139)
So you have books that are - Not started reading, not finished reading, recommended. You are missing the "finished reading, but not recommended", don't you think? Or maybe I am reading things wrong.
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Re:I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k... by erikano on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @12:58PM (#9852996)
I have now made a new label for eBooks I discourage and I also wrote a clarification about neutral books -- those without any legend. Thanks for pointing out this element of confusion.
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Re:I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k... by limedaring on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @07:30AM (#9850926)
2015-05-04 would be the published date.
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Re:I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k... by erikano on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @12:58PM (#9852998)
Ok, thanks :) Just to confirm, though, that's May 2015, right? (And not the 5th of April 2015.)
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Re:I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k... by limedaring on Thursday July 09, 2015 @12:12PM (#9858777)
Yes :)
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