---
title: "Nothing like the smell of new books!"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/25/nothing-like-the-smell-of-new-books.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/25/nothing-like-the-smell-of-new-books.html"
published: "2003-09-25T07:40:00"
updated: "2003-09-25T07:40:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Just ordered 3 books from Amazon : How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers COM+ and the Battle for the Middle Tier Test Driven…"
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# Nothing like the smell of new books!

By Roy Osherove September 25, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 25, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Just ordered 3 books from [Amazon](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/25/www.amazon.com):

- [How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316919160/iserializable-20)
- [COM+ and the Battle for the Middle Tier](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471317179/iserializable-20)
- [Test Driven Development: By Example](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321146530/iserializable-20)

Thanks to my [Amazon](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/25/www.amazon.com) referring program, you just helped me reduce this cost to half of the original cost of the purchase. Thanks everyone :) I promise to share what I learn from these books.

Also, I'm currently using Safari Books On line to read 3 more books:

- [COM and .NET Component Services](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596001037/iserializable-20)
- [Essential .NET, Volume 1: The Common Language Runtime](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201734117/iserializable-20)
- [Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201485672/iserializable-20)

Safari is great. It's much easier and cheaper this way. The only problem I have with this service is that they don't have all the books I'd want, so I'm forced to buy some of them off of [Amazon](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/25/www.amazon.com).

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Sep 26, 2003

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- Sep 26, 2003

    ### [Pay for my PDC?](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/26/pay-for-my-pdc.html)

- Sep 24, 2003

    ### [Some stuff](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/24/some-stuff.html)

- Sep 24, 2003

    ### [The perfect birthday gift](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/24/the-perfect-birthday-gift.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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