Having problems with your free online edition?

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 | News

I’ve gotten a couple of emails from people having problems getting the free online edition of the book. For those of you who don’t know, at the very last page of the book there is a code you can use to get 1 month of free access to the online version of the book at Safari Books Online. But aparently people have been having trouble getting the code to work.

I went to Safari Books Online and entered the code myself to see what all the fuss was about and to my surprise I got an error message. But the surprise was short lived when I took a seccond look at the code in the book: Because of the upper case typeface it looks like the first four keys of the code are “R61G” but inreality they are “r6ig”. And with that small correction, the code works just fine.

So, if you’ve been having trouble getting this to work, try substituting the “1″ for an “i” and give it one more shot.