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Originally Posted by pwalker8
The way the subscription works is three fold.
First, you can read all the books and watch all the videos on line.
Second, from the safari app on the iDevice, you can download up to 3 ebooks to be read inside the app offline.
Third, you get a certain number of tokens each month that will accumulate for a time period. You can use those tokens to download an individual book in a couple of different formats, PDF and epub are the two that I use. Those books are yours to read via whatever reader device you want to use. They do have a watermark so if you post it somewhere, your name is all over it.
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This may have been true at one time (or maybe you have these terms grandfathered from a previous plan) but the current terms are:
https://www.safaribooksonline.com/pricing/
- Unlimited books/videos/audios/conference talks
- no limit on content downloads with Queue app (iOS or Android)
- live online training
- etc.
There is nothing about 'tokens' for downloading ePub or PDF.
With the demise of O'Reilly's bookstore, it seems it will no longer be possible to 'upgrade' a print edition to ebook (sometimes for as little as $5, via 'honor system') or to get multiple formats.
But I vastly prefer subscription to 'collecting' technology books.