This makes me sad. It was great to purchase books directly from O'reilly to learn more about technologies I was working with and to purchase the occasional hal

This makes me sad. It was great to purchase books directly from O'reilly to learn more about technologies I was working with and to purchase the occasional half priced daily special that just looked interesting. PDF format was the best for preserving the book's format. I've had enough problems with kindle-formatted technical books that I won't be buying O'reilly books from Amazon. $40/month or $400/year for Safari online is a little too steep for my budget.