Buying Safari Online (O'Reilly) Membership via ACM

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Our company dropped the O’Reilly Safari Online subscription. To keep learning freely, I needed a personal workaround.

The official price is steep: “Safari Books Online costs $39 per month or $399 per year.” If you can afford it, great; if not, read on.

One alternative is to join ACM for $25/year and use that to access Safari. That’s the route I took.

Register for ACM

Log in to Safari Online

  • Enter your ACM email (with the @acm.org suffix). Safari redirects to ACM’s login page.
  • Use the same username without the @acm.org suffix; the password is unchanged.
  • Works across iOS, iPad, and the web.

Notes

  • O’Reilly doesn’t limit device count, so multiple people can share the same account (though sharing may violate terms—use judgment).

Reference

Final Thoughts

  • For $25 a year you gain full access to O’Reilly’s library—not bad.
  • I’ve moved away from paper books; they’re bulky and hard to manage. Kindle + O’Reilly cover my needs across languages and topics.
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