With nearly all the Take Control ebooks, including this one, once you've purchased and downloaded the PDF, you can print it yourself or you can buy a print-on-demand copy (at $10 off, since you already bought the ebook). You can click the Print tab, above, to order from Qoop, our print-on-demand supplier. From the Print tab, be sure to copy the coupon code for the $10 discount so that you can paste it into the Qoop cart.

The print-on-demand version has the advantage of acting much like a normal book, with double-sided printing and book-like dimensions. However, you certainly can print the book on your own printer. In so doing, we recommend that you test-print a few of the pages in the Command-Line Recipes section, since some of those recipes extend into the right margin (we did this so that you can copy and paste them into Terminal without accidentally introducing line breaks). If your printer cuts off these wide lines, you can make everything fit by printing with a small reduction—try setting the Scale to 90 percent, for instance, or if it appears in your Print dialog, try the "Scale each page to fit paper" radio button.

—Posted by Tonya Engst on April 1, 2009