Comittment

Well, I finally bought the book- and stopped pirating it.
Apparently, most professionals in the web design community pirate certain software for purposes of learning it, and then purchase it as they start to actually get paid for their work. This is usually out of learning how much work it takes to actually make these programs that are so easy to pirate, and because they do not want to get caught profiting off of pirated software(which, most pirates agree, is the only real issue people have with pirating anything).
This now extends to most forms of transportable media, including books.
I will freely admit to "sampling" books. I won't say which and I won't use anything more than euphemisms in a public blog but the act remains. The fact is, you do it too. You go to the bookstore or the library, you freely open up a book and start reading it, sometimes at the beginning, sometimes in the middle, and some people read the whole thing sitting there in the store without paying for it at all. This is as much stealing as what I am doing, so please hold any rants until the logic sinks in.
So I finally scrounged some cash, bought the book. Still reading it, but I wouldn't have even considered purchasing it(especially a business/self-help book) until I knew it would actually be worth something.
Meanwhile, my current project is to see if I can get some readers for my blog(so I can use you for free market research) and grab some business cards.