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What customers are saying about Safari Books Online
This site is amazing and really addictive. Once you start looking through the list of books, it's hard to stop adding to your favorites, which leads to the problem of finding time to read everything you've chosen. Absolutely wonderful idea, Safari Books, thank you!
Our employees use Safari books and videos to support both just-in-time and formal learning. The depth and breadth of Nuance products and solutions and variety of industry verticals we operate in requires our technical employees to design, develop and support using a wide array of technologies. For this reason, our employees really take advantage of the depth of content available on Safari Books Online. The choice of whether to use a video or book to meet a need is very much an individual decision; however, we do find that folks looking to learn something from scratch like to use the videos.
To quote a friend of mine, "being a software developer is a lifelong learning experience." That is so true. In the last 2 years I've had to wrap my head around so many technologies and languages, some mainstream and some not, and I've spent countless hours trying to learn the fundamentals. Since purchasing a personal Safari subscription, I've experienced some of my best productivity and have been more effective supporting my team. The books are current, by experts, and the reader on the webpage is pretty decent too. This is probably the best value for money I've ever spent for a technology education resource.
I have been a Safari Books online subscriber for a while now (company and now individually), and frankly I am not sure how I had lived without it. As a programmer I am continuously working with different technologies and platforms, and Safari has been one of my most valuable tools to keep me up to date with current technology. It is like the Mecca of continuous learning without the added cost, paper or space. Oh, did I mention the ability to search text in a single book or the entire library? How cool is that? Cut and paste code, bookmark, highlights, WOW , programmer's life just got a whole lot better. Safari Books online - tried and tested by a very satisfied programmer.
Safari Books Online is awesome. I hate it for being so awesome. Want to reference a tech book? BAM! There you go! No hassle! Where is the hassle?
What customers are saying about Creative Edge
Creative Edge is fantastic! I use it frequently to learn new technical concepts and programs that help me to advance my knowledge and support my professional expertise. The small monthly fee, which is non-binding, is highly affordable. I highly recommend Creative Edge to any Creative Professional who needs a little or a lot of help, whether you want to advance your creative career or would like to enter the field as a beginner. In a few days I learned how to update and manage a Dreamweaver-developed Web site for a non-profit organization which had been unable to update their site in over a year. I COULD NEVER HAVE COME UP TO SPEED THAT QUICKLY WITHOUT THE VIDEOS AND BOOKS AVAILABLE AT CREATIVE EDGE!
In this ever changing world of technology and the commercial arts, it’s often hard to keep up with knowledge and training to keep us on the cutting edge. Its often expensive to do so, too. After combing through countless bookstores over the past few months looking for up to date books on videography, I stumbled upon CreativeEdge. I'm stunned. Here are all the books and videos that I need to learn the new tech skills needed to stay current. And – it’s all affordable and easy to use. I love it!! The first book I read paid for the monthly subscription already. Nice job, guys.
As a professional graphic production artist with over 20yrs in the biz, I've needed to learn many computer applications. Someone in my line of work can easily spend $1000+/year on books and video training. Fortunately, Safari books has created "Creative Edge". With "Creative Edge" I'm able to spend a quarter of what I was spending annually before, and be able to access ALL of the previous books AND all the new books. Even better, I get access to rough cuts which means I'm getting the books before they even hit the store shelves. I also like that I can access the book content on my mobile devices such as my iPod Touch, laptop, as well as my desktop when I'm in the office. The best part is that all content is available in the cloud via any browser at anytime. The way Creative Edge works is very flexible. You can search by content using keywords or by choosing the subject, product or brand. You can also create favorites and bookmarks for a fast return to your reading material the next time you return to the site. The search tool is very effective in that you can search full-text to narrow down your topics and even exclude material of previous versions. Once you have chosen a book to review, the presentation of the material is very efficient. In fact it's better than having the printed book in front of you. Given that Creative Edge has only been around for less a year, it's a very robust site.
Just discovered your site (via a LinkedIn announcement). I've just started exploring, but I can see it is just fantastic. Thanks so much for putting all this stuff online in one easy to find place.
We thoroughly enjoyed the training that the Creative Edge platform offered us. The wide range of video tutorials were and immense help in getting all of our administrative and marketing staff up to speed on creative software in a timely manner.
