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Originally Posted by KenJackson
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. |
I have a couple dozen of them, mostly of the type that is for linear reading (as opposed to reference). The EPUB versions work very well on my PRS-505, so I expect them to be even better on the 650. Code snippets that are wide can get a bit confusing when they wrap around, but if you have a computer, you can look at the snippets on that when you absolutely need to see them accurately.
The Sony ereaders have a glitch with their table of contents menus, in that you can't just jump to the page of any item that has sub-items (it can only take you to the sub-item list). I posted a python script to these forums a few months ago that massaged the EPUB table of contents to get around this. See this post:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...70#post1225570
Once you become a member of the O'Reilly site, they send you many discount offers: 2-for-1, 60% off,... You can get them quite cheaply if you're patient. And you can take many format versions of each book, and they notify you when there is a free update for any book you bought (they recently improved the fonts for EPUBs), and there is no DRM,... O'Reilly do everything right, and I wish other vendors would follow suit.