We’ve entered the season of class projects, Science Fairs, cooped-up weekends, and dreary afternoons. Folks seem to think Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred<\/em> can help with that (check out the Amazon reviews<\/a>!), and I’m inclined to agree. We’ve entered the season of class projects, Science Fairs, cooped-up weekends, and dreary afternoons. Folks seem to think Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred can help with that (check out the Amazon reviews!), and I’m inclined to agree. Amazon clearly has their every-day deal (usually 30-something percent off; it actually changes from day to day, and I … Continue reading “BACK-TO-SCHOOL SPECIAL: 35% OFF SNIP, BURN, SOLDER, SHRED<\/i>!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAmazon clearly has their every-day deal (usually 30-something percent off; it actually changes from day to day, and I have no idea why), and also sells the Kindle version for a flat $9.99. Here’s the New Deal: Order Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred<\/a><\/em> directly from the publisher using coupon code SHRED<\/strong><\/small> and they’ll knock 35% off the cover price of either the print edition or the ebook pack (which includes DRM-free PDF, ePub, and Kindle-compatible versions). *Added Bonus*: When you buy the print edition, No Starch includes the ebook bundle for *free.* I’m not a *huge* ebook fan for something as picture intensive as a DIY book, but these ebooks are really slick: The PDF version is basically the source-file used to print the paper copies, and reads *excellently* on an iPad. The .mobi and .epub ebooks look sharp on Kindles (and their ilk), and have all of the cross-references formatted as links: Every place I say something like “As you’ll recall from Project #22,” or whatever, you can click on the “Project #22” and go straight to that section without fumbling or undue distraction. It might not seem like much, but it’s *really* handy when you’re midway through soldering and forget which leg of an LED is negative, or how the lugs on a pot are labelled.
\nThat No Starch Press has the wisdom and far-sightedness to go DRM-free *and* bundle free ebooks with their print editions is one of my favorite things about working with them; it’s really a wonderful, common-sense Good Deal for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"