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OK, I rerouted my morning run towards the Apple store and tried Safari Books Online with the non-html books and based on a 10 minute test, I found some caveats.
First, you have to use the m.safaribooksonline url - you don't get redirected because you have an iPad.
With the Head First Books, say iPhone Development, the pages render as an image, so if you zoom out, you lose some image quality, but not too bad.
With books that render as html in mobile but not the regular site, they look like they do on the iPhone, just bigger obviously.
The biggest annoyance is the CAPTCHAs I kept getting. Every 3rd or 4th page in the Head First book, I got a CAPTCHA. That made it very unusable.
Just a general complaint with the mobile version is that with all that real estate, they don't take advantage of the room to make navigation easier.
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