On Safari...

I have a fair few books, many from O'Reilly http://www.oreilly.com/ and Cisco Press http://www.ciscopress.com/ and they are a pain to lug around and access on a regular basis, so now I try to do two a few smarter things with my library when possible:

• Get CD based technical books such that you can dump them on your web server in work/home and hopefully they are also searchable as per the following two via a java applet search engine that runs on most browsers e.g. Perl CD Bookshelf http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlcdbs4/index.html Unix CD Bookshelf http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unixcdbs2/index.html
• Join Safari Bookshelf http://safari.oreilly.com/ and maintain a bookshelf that allows you to swap in and out books on demand with quite a large and growing libarary of books ( not all O'Reilly produced! )
• Keep an eye on so called e-books from free resources like Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/