Thank you for your comments.

“When one writes a book, he needs to take care about the whole book to make it good.”

This is particularly relevant. As far as I am concerned any book about how Oracle works should be consistent and cohesive. That means the entire book has to be a single narrative. Because of that it’s MUCH harder to write a single book of 400 pages than it might be to write 100 articles of 4 pages. And that’s why I keep running out of time whenever I sit down to spend time on the next book.

It’s been almost one and a half year since my first comment about the next volumes/editions of your book. Why I am biased towards books rather than blogs …
(1)When one writes a book, he needs to take care about the whole book to make it good. Whereas, to write a blog, he needs to care about just a few links of reference. That extra bit of care makes the books very special. The whole book will guide one as a Teacher. In blogs, its somewhat hard to find where to start, where to go next, etc.
(2)Hard-copy of the book means it is very close to you – very portable; just flip the pages to read even when traveling or in bed.
(3)In India, Internet is darn slow; and it costs a lot too to pay for the internet usage than to buy a new book.
(4)Thank God, your blog is in wordpress. In our office, blogspot is restricted. I miss a few good oracle blogs like the tkyte blog. (As of now, I don’t own a PC (or) laptop. Though I would buy one within a few months this year, I started planning for that before a few years.)
(5)Summarising, in my humble opinion, books are more user-friendly than blogs, at least for a typical Indian.

If you find any words inappropriate for this thread, you can delete the whole comment. Its not my intention to do so. Hope you can understand me.

Best Regards

I still use unix power tools, which was “just” a compilation from a usenet newsgroup. Bought it twice, in fact.

all what you need is to have an assistant, who would write all your remakrs and ideas to the blog :-)

I was asked the same question during the recent E2SN virtual conference – and I pointed out that I’d probably have to stop blogging for about a year to make time for finishing the book. Tanel told me that the online response to this comment was an overwhelming vote in favour of blogging. So perhaps it’s time I put it to a wider vote:

How about now? When your second volume would be released?

Regards

May I know when we can expect the release of your book?

Regards
Parthiban Nagarajan