Re:Humble Bundle Books: Functional Programming
by vbernat on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @10:51AM
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Recently, O'Reilly stopped providing ePub. If you want this format, you can buy from Google Playstore but the typography here is bad. Has someone checked how are the ePub in the bundle? Good old O'Reilly ePubs or quickly converted from some HTML?
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Re:Humble Bundle Books: Functional Programming
by lewapkon on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @11:16AM
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Mobi files are easily convertible to ePub without any loss (you can use for instance Calibre).
Re:Humble Bundle Books: Functional Programming
by vbernat on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @12:32PM
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Buying Mobi files is sending a signal that DRM are OK.
Re:Humble Bundle Books: Functional Programming
by Spivak on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @03:27PM
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I have a lot of DRM-free Mobi files. Do you just mean that .mobi are typically shipped with DRM? Because the same is true for ePUB too.
Re:Humble Bundle Books: Functional Programming
by vbernat on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @05:10PM
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You are right. In my head, Mobi files were always downloaded from Amazon (and here, they always come with a DRM, right?).
Re:Humble Bundle Books: Functional Programming
by yla92 on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @11:24AM
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The ePubs from the bundle are quite okay. I just tried one of the books with FBReader on Ubuntu.
Re:Humble Bundle Books: Functional Programming
by vbernat on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @12:41PM
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Here is an example of an O'Reilly book in ePub format, as bought on Google Playstore: https://imgur.com/a/wPK7G. Clearly, nobody took a glimpse at this version before publishing. The second image is from an old JunOS book bought directly on O'Reilly website.
EDIT: Just bought the bundle, checked the Rust book and ePub is pretty good!