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doubtless show up on eBay

Not to mention the ten dollar CDs which will doubtless show up on eBay like other piracy

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The only benefit of the

The only benefit of the PDF's is their portability. Its a drag that they only work with certain Adobe versions and require a .net account but it saves having to lump around 5-6 books. I like the online...

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Places of deep thought

So I can see that we read in the same places! :-) Books were my first and only option. I do like reading in the bus, in the subway and in those places I like to think about work :-)

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Get your correction fluid out now!

Quietly, in the dead of night, without any publicity, or release note (what is one of those?) or anything else, new copies of the 5 core books have been released. Apparently "As the second impression...

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arrows and all that

Hi Liz,Thanks for your posting. I ran into some textual issues as well. Would you be willing to share your findings with the rest of us? Which arrows did you have a problem with?Maarten Bordewijk...

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BOKKED

Whatever you find, the convenient place to document them might be on BOKKED? It is easy to use and it helps centrally document all erratacheers Rob

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I passed this information

I passed this information on, it was a friend who queried what had changed and was told this about the arrows. My point was that we do not know which have changed! I have made sense of all the diagrams...

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ITIL diagrams

I see what you mean. I think many of us had similar experiences. I actually used this principle when discussing the Manager's Bridge syllabus with my colleagues: "here's a diagram...what does it mean"....

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How I got the ITIL v3 books into Microsoft Word format

Got the online subscription, then I went page by page dragging across the HTML and dumped it into MS Word. It took me several hours to get through all 5 volumes. The dragging grabbed everything...

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Digital Rights protection is impossible

Not too many people will go through that Joe. it does show however that Digital Rights protection is impossible and the ITIL books will leak eventually.

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DRM Skeptic

You are correct, DRM as it is conceptualized today is structured for failure. It is not solely a technology problem. But what Joe is doing is within the scope of copyright law (Fair-Use). DRM...

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no respect for the copy rights of owners of digital media

Quite right. So long as Joe stops there it is legal. But there are people (and cultures) with no respect for the copy rights of owners of digital media. Someone will move on to the illegal step of...

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ITIL Copyright

Hate to disagree with you good people but, if Joe's "cut and paste" is pasting extracts, however small, into another document that is not strictly limited to his personal use, e.g. its intended to be...

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Come on you copyright lawyers - help us out

My understanding of "fair use" is that it covers commercial use as well. So long as the extract is of reasonable length and is properly attributed then of course one can quote from ITIL. Come on you...

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Here you go Skep

And how, pray tell, would you define "strictly limited to personal use"?No one is disputing that ITIL is a registered trademark protected by Copyright. Copyright laws give copyright owners the right to...

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You may not quote ITIL for commercial use without permission

The law is very grey. In principle though John is correct. You may not quote ITIL for commercial use without permission. See my latest post for more information.

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ITIL Online

Another option for viewing ITIL v3 online is 24x7Books. These are HTML versions of ITIL v3. Best online/soft rendition. They also have v2 books (all).

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looks legit

US$499 per year for more than just ITIL, so not bad I think (i'm a bit jet lagged), This looks legit.

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Customer viewpoint...

I think that Books 24x7 is an outstanding resource -- I use it CONSTANTLY. The service sends out weekly updates with new books added and I look forward to seeing the new submissions. I can only...

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That makes two of us. I

That makes two of us. I rather read paper that pixels and that's why I think paper will stick around for a while until we find a better replacement. My personal library is filled with 3 ring binders...

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