Re:All O'Reilly Ebooks 50% off today
by vidarh on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @10:19AM
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I much prefer buying directly at O'Reilly, given that they can sync the books straight to my Dropbox in both Kindle format and a variety of others, and I particularly like supporting them for their lack of DRM..
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Exactly. I don't buy ebooks from Amazon as they only offer Kindle books, whilst I want the epub version.
DRM free and available in dropbox so can be read on my laptop, ipad and android phone at any time is key.
Also feels good to pay the publisher directly and not fund Amazons tax dodging.
I do though have way too many ebooks from O'Reilly and Prag Prog :)
Re:All O'Reilly Ebooks 50% off today
by Infinitesimus on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @10:43AM
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Doesn't Calibre let you convert from Kindle books to epub?
Yes, but the fonts, layouts, tables, diagrams, etc don't translate that well... sometimes OK, sometimes really bad.
I'd rather get a epub directly and save conversions for books that aren't in epub format at all, like fiction/non-fiction kindle format. Text-only or mostly text conversions (e.g. mobi to epub) work much better.