I found this thread as I was preparing to start a thread asking if anyone had read an
O'Reilly EPUB and what the experience was like. Normally I would just buy it, especially since they are nice enough to sell w/o DRM. But their prices are high enough that I wanted some confirmation. I have a whole bunch of their pbooks and find them to be really helpful.
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Originally Posted by cu_cannon
I much prefer paper books for technical references. It is much easer to flip back and forth between topics and tab pages for later use.
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As an interesting converse, there have been numerous times in the past ten years or so (since I started reading a lot of on-line stuff and PDFs etc.) that I've wanted to find something in a paper book that I knew I had seen but couldn't find. On those occasions, I found myself thinking,
I'll just search for it, only to come crashing back to reality--paper books don't have that capability.
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Originally Posted by cu_cannon
I generally need to have several references available at once making ereaders unsuitable.
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Me too. But I'm just about to buy my first O'Reilly ebook. I specifically want it as an ebook because I intend to read much of it straight through on my Sony Reader.
I figure later when I need to reference it, I'll be able to open multiple instances on my PC with the
FBReader,
EPUBRead in Firefox, or
Calibre's
ebook-viewer.