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Tempted to buy the Kindle edition. Any reasons for or against, compared to the printed?

• uptown 16y ago
  For tech books, I prefer to be able to hold a book, flip around quickly to sections I'm interested in, and mark things with a bookmark.
• siculars 16y ago
  Buy the printed book off amazon for 20 bucks. Personally, I'm not sold on the ebook experience for a number of reasons.
  • tjpick 16y ago
    the ebook experience is great for stuff you just want to read and not have hanging round. Like autobios, novels etc. It's not yet great for tech books, stuff where you have to jump around randomly rather than reading linearly, books with deep TOC.
• kroger 16y ago
  I have a kindle edition of "Javascript the best parts" (I bought the ebook bundle, a mobi + pdf, on O'Reilly) and it's good enough. Usually when the book doesn't have long code examples it's fine to read on the kindle. OTOH, sometimes they will convert code to images, which is not so good (e.g python essential reference). I hope the quality of programming books on the kindle will improve in the future, but now it's not too bad if you buy the mobi/pdf combo. You can always use the pdf on your computer if you need to check something quickly and your kindle is not nearby. For me, the biggest advantage of having programming books on the kindle is that you can easily carry a few 1000+ pages books around and get some reading done when you have some unexpected down time. I feel that programming books on the kindle are particularly good when you're learning something new and want to read sequentially. It's not so great for reference as you'd need to jump around and that's not kindle's forte. (although I do use the pdf as reference) Edit: I forgot to mention that O'Reilly has a 7 day return policy on ebooks. I only wish they had a ebook sample like amazon has.