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I don't buy as many physical books as I used to; mostly fiction, and mostly used. I buy a fair number of ebooks, mostly technical, and mostly from O'Reilly. I
by a3n 11y ago
I don't buy as many physical books as I used to; mostly fiction, and mostly used.
I buy a fair number of ebooks, mostly technical, and mostly from O'Reilly. I love that they're DRM-free; in my case I take the PDF version, but they have other formats.
Pakt has a very low-intrusiveness form of "DRM." They print your name on every page of the pdf that you buy, but it's otherwise unrestricted.
I don't think Pakt or O'Reilly is going to come after you for sharing an ebook with a family member, and I've given a few copies of O'Reilly books to colleagues, to evangelize both O'Reilly and the tech in question.
- baghira 11y agoSimilarly Springer ebooks have your name as a watermark at the bottom of the page, but no "real" DRM. It's a pretty reasonable compromise.
- fsloth 11y agoThis. I categorize fiction anyway as "volatile" so I'm not too concerned when the book goes out of my reach (as long as I can read it once). Oreilly, Packt and Pragmatic's books in digital forms have little downsides, and the considerable upside that ever growing pile of physical books is no longer a stress factor (however minor) in a relationship :)