Where do you get your Codebooks?

Where do you get your Codebooks?

  • My employer buys it for me.

    Votes: 10 13.2%

  • I purchase my own.

    Votes: 55 72.4%

  • The office gets me one, but I buy more for my own use (such as for posting here!).

    Votes: 4 5.3%

  • I?m crafty enough to swipe someone else?s.

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • I get it as a gift from someone.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other source.

    Votes: 6 7.9%
  • Total voters
    76
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acrwc10 said:
I don't believe the union pays its guy's to go to night classes, but they require it.
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I know that the local #26 doesn't require it. Unless you are referring to the apprenticeship, in which case it is an 8 hour class during working hours for which the apprentices are paid just as they would be if they were on the job.
 
joebell said:
Bob I'm just curious what did you not like about the CD-ROM version. I ask because I am thinking about purchasing the handbook addition for my laptop.

As far as the OP I buy the handbook combo from the NFPA and my employer supplies me with a softcover that has the MA ammendments. The company also provides a the 15 hr code change required for license renewal.
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I took that comment as it was not the CD-ROM that was the problem, but the WHO that supplied it, my guess is it was to costly.
I purchased mine from the NFPA and it was expensive compared to other sources, plus they messed up on the order and it took a long time to get it sorted out, and cost me one way shipping, that bugged me.
 
I get mine from a supply house around the corner, they have it cheaper than anywhere I have ever seen. I think I payed $52 for the 'o8 book with the ring binding. (I regret not buying the regular one because my TOC is already falling out from use.)
 
The loose leaf version is a lot easier to shove in the auto feeder of the scanner.
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joebell said:
Bob I'm just curious what did you not like about the CD-ROM version. I ask because I am thinking about purchasing the handbook addition for my laptop.
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For the money they get for the CD-ROM the licensing agreement stinks.

I have 3 PCs at home and a company laptop, I should be allowed to install it in all of them and I should not have to keep the CD in the drive.

Last I knew they now let you install it in two PCs.
 
iwire said:
My 2002 NECH CD has to stay in the drive, no option to run it from the hard drive
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I see, well you can with the 2008 NECHB, but it tops my list of things not to buy in 2011.

EDIT: And Joe, its $185.
 
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Except for some corporations, I see the NFPA is pricing themselves to a smaller market than they had in the past. I think their thoughts were that the NEC was their largest seller and that people would just keep spending the money.

I do not buy my NEC from NFPA anymore. Amazon has much better prices.
 
Pierre C Belarge said:
Except for some corporations, I see the NFPA is pricing themselves to a smaller market than they had in the past. I think their thoughts were that the NEC was their largest seller and that people would just keep spending the money.

I do not buy my NEC from NFPA anymore. Amazon has much better prices.
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But Amazon stil has to buy them from NFPA. They just buy them by the truckload for a better price than we can.
 
bill addiss said:
This probably means you'll be getting some New Catalogs soon. :roll:

Bill
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Tree killers.

Anybody else get a letter last week from James M. Shannon, President and CEO of NFPA. It appears I am not responding correctly to my membership applications and renewal forms.:D
 
480sparky said:
Now that the '08 is being adopted in more places, everyone is getting a copy of it.

Just curious, where do y'all get your new Codebooks from?
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Odds are CA will not adopt the 08 and skip to '11 - sometimes it takes a while to adopt here, and by the time they are nearing completion of one code cycle - the previous would be obsolete. We skipped 96, got the 02 in 05, and the 05 in mid 07. We might get the 08 if it is not decided that we just go to '11 depending on when the various committees might meet in '10.... ;) (And of course some of the newer committee members may be of an age where the would 'go to eleven' might sound familiar to them - so there may be an added unsuspected psychological effect in play.;) )
 
chris kennedy said:
Tree killers.

Anybody else get a letter last week from James M. Shannon, President and CEO of NFPA. It appears I am not responding correctly to my membership applications and renewal forms.:D
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bill addiss said:
This probably means you'll be getting some New Catalogs soon. :roll:

Bill
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Pierre C Belarge said:
Except for some corporations, I see the NFPA is pricing themselves to a smaller market than they had in the past. I think their thoughts were that the NEC was their largest seller and that people would just keep spending the money.

I do not buy my NEC from NFPA anymore. Amazon has much better prices.
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I wouldn't mind supporting the NFPA (I no longer buy from them) if they would practice more restraint in the JUNK MAIL dept. for a NON-Profit organization to be so wasteful is reason enough to not support them.

Someones brother at the NFPA must have a printing company and mailing service.

You can call them and ask them to stop mailing the Junk Mail to you and they will stop "eventually" I did this last year and it took about 3 months to stop getting all the mailers but they did stop.
 
e57 said:
Odds are CA will not adopt the 08 and skip to '11 - sometimes it takes a while to adopt here, and by the time they are nearing completion of one code cycle - the previous would be obsolete. We skipped 96, got the 02 in 05, and the 05 in mid 07. We might get the 08 if it is not decided that we just go to '11 depending on when the various committees might meet in '10.... ;) (And of course some of the newer committee members may be of an age where the would 'go to eleven' might sound familiar to them - so there may be an added unsuspected psychological effect in play.;) )
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Must be rough taking update courses. And expensive. Buy a codebook that you'll never use....
 
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